London Bridge is falling down, Rome’s burnt and Babylon
The Great is now but dust; yet still Spring must
Swing back through Time’s continual arc to earth.
Though every land become as a black field
Dunged with the dead, drenched by the dying’s blood,
Still must a punctual goddess waken and ascend
The rocky stairs, up into earth’s chilled air,
And pass upon her mission through those carrion ranks,
Picking her way among a maze of broken brick
To quicken with her footsteps the short sooty grass between;
While now once more their futile matchwood empires flare and blaze
And through the smoke men gaze with bloodshot eyes
At the translucent apparition, clad in trembling nascent green
Of one they still can recognize, though scarcely understand.
(David Gascoyne)
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