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Article: View of Baltmore from Green Meadows Cemetery. (Poetry).(Poem)
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- The Antioch Review
- Article date:
- June 22, 2002
- Author:
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View of Baltmore from Green Meadows Cemetery
The nineteenth century
Believed the earth almost a paradise.
Transported by invention, they came to see
The world as park and promenade
(Long Sunday aftemoons, an orange slice
Of sunset, cakes, another spot of tea),
And smiled on the new world they'd made,
Sculpting the garden, spurning the cockatrice
"In the spirit of God."
Far from the charnel house
And the ripe mephitic whiff of the disinterred,
Essence of rot, inviting cur and mouse
To churchyards crammed to bursting (this came
To a head in Paris, where the worst occurred:
Long-pressured walls collapsed, and, ...
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