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!

– Beautiful City by Lord Alfred Tennyson

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