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Demeter and other poems/Beautiful City

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193950Demeter and other poems — Beautiful CityAlfred Tennyson

BEAUTIFUL CITY.

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!