Article: View of Baltmore from Green Meadows Cemetery. (Poetry).(Poem)

 
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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