<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=541809" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Ballad of London</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">AH, London! London! our delight, <br>Great flower that opens but at night, <br>Great City of the midnight sun, <br>Whose day begins when day is done. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lamp after lamp against the sky <br>Opens a sudden beaming eye, <br>Leaping alight on either hand, <br>The iron lilies of the Strand. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like dragonflies, the hansoms hover, <br>With jeweled eyes, to catch the lover; <br>The streets are full of lights and loves, <br>Soft gowns, and flutter of soiled doves. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The human moths about the light <br>Dash and cling close in dazed delight, <br>And burn and laugh, the world and wife, <br>For this is London, this is life! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Upon thy petals butterflies, <br>But at thy root, some say, there lies, <br>A world of weeping trodden things, <br>Poor worms that have not eyes or wings. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">From out corruption of their woe <br>Springs this bright flower that charms us so, <br>Men die and rot deep out of sight <br>To keep this jungle-flower bright. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Paris and London, World-Flowers twain <br>Wherewith the World-Tree blooms again, <br>Since Time hath gathered Babylon, <br>And withered Rome still withers on. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sidon and Tyre were such as ye, <br>How bright they shone upon the tree! <br>But Time hath gathered, both are gone, <br>And no man sails to Babylon.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Richard+Le+Gallienne">Richard Le Gallienne</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=541809" data-title="A Ballad of London de Richard Le Gallienne" data-description="AH, London! London! our delight, Great flower that opens but at night, Great City of the midnight sun, Whose day begins when day is done. Lamp after lamp against the sky Opens a sudden beaming eye, Leaping alight on either hand, The iron l..."></div> </div> </div>

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