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BEAUTIFUL CITY by ALFRED TENNYSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: BEAUTIFUL CITY, THE CENTRE AND CRATER OF EUROPEAN CONFUSION
Last Line: ROLL'D AGAIN BACK ON ITSELF IN THE TIDES OF A CIVIC INSANITY!
Subject(s): CITIES; URBAN LIFE;

BEAUTIFUL city, the centre and crater of European confusion,
O you with your passionate shriek for the rights of an equal humanity,
How often your Re-volution has proven but E-volution
Roll'd again back on itself in the tides of a civic insanity!





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