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LONDON     Used to wear her lights splendidly,     Flinging her shawl-fringe over the River,     Tassels in abandon.     And up in the sky     A two-eyed clock, like an owl     Solemnly used to approve, chime, chiming,     Approval, goggle-eyed fowl.     There are no gleams on the River,     No goggling clock;     No sound from St. Stephen's;     No lamp-fringed frock.     Instead,     Darkness, and skin-wrapped     Fleet, hurrying limbs,     Soft-footed dead.     London     Original, wolf-wrapped     In pelts of wolves, all her luminous     Garments gone.     London, with hair     Like a forest darkness, like a marsh     Of rushes, ere the Romans     Broke in her lair.     It is well     That London, lair of sudden     Male and female darknesses     Has broken her spell.

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