<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=567573" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On The Early English Poem The Ruin</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mile-wide ruin of a city, <br>ruin of a town, <br>told tales fragmented, <br>your lost poet foiled, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">his ruined poem<br>once whole on vellum, torn, <br>blackened to earth, <br>shrunk into microfilm.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bath was the city<br>that bred bright balladry, <br>a rumoured recital, <br>rare fresh-inked flower.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Rime in the mortar, <br>rime on the broken tiles, <br>gold on flashing water, <br>fragment of a world.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fires, excavations, <br>puzzle your pathway, <br>for history existed<br>even in history.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Poet whose part is past, <br>wide-eyed wanderer, <br>ply us with phrases, <br>your damaged verses</div><div style="margin:10px 0">ancient slabs<br>over springs still known to us, <br>piped streams<br>running with language.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Rime on the broken tiles, <br>lines on the damaged page.<br>Flare, crumple, char.<br>Vain, vanish with the Weirds.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">2009 [recorded at Chicago Calling Festival 2011]</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Sally+Evans">Sally Evans</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=567573" data-title="On The Early English Poem The Ruin de Sally Evans" data-description="Mile-wide ruin of a city, ruin of a town, told tales fragmented, your lost poet foiled, his ruined poem once whole on vellum, torn, blackened to earth, shrunk into microfilm. Bath was the city that bred bright balladry, a rumoured recital..."></div> </div> </div>

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