From stately Georgian houses 

The summer evening fills

With Georgian ladies’ laughter

As they meet to dance Quadrilles

Their laughter tinkles down the years

From Hope and Rodney Street

On wreaths of smoke it gently steers

Their tiny Georgian feet

So delicate the tracery 

Of plastered ceiling coves

Fanlights warmly candlelit

And Palladian porticoes

The city ...

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From Hampstead Heath the Flete doth run

a tributary at Gospel Oak then seeks to join it

and doth entwine at Camden Town and so combine,

a matrimonial columbine at Pancras Church.

At Battle Bridge it come besmirched by pestilence

 from the west at Woburn Place a stream comes in,

near Charterhouse another rill through city fields

doth merge and so a veritable rush begins.

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This historical and bloody road to the holy city is paved with bloody footsteps.

So many died over two millennia.

Nearly thirty thousand more have been added to the Damascus Road.

All dead, killed by ultra violence.

Syrians murdering Syrians.

When will it finally stop?

In another two millennia or when they're all dead?

Bloody Damascus Road in a r...

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