Conrad Aiken - Over the darkened city, the city of towers, The city...

Over the darkened city, the city of towers, The city of a thousand gates, Over the gleaming terraced roofs, the huddled towers, Over a somnolent whisper of loves and hates, The slow wind flows, drearily streams and falls, With a mournful sound down rain-dark walls.

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Over the darkened city, the city of towers, The city of a thousand gates, Over the gleaming terraced roofs, the huddled towers, Over a somnolent whisper of loves and hates, The slow wind flows, drearily streams and falls, With a mournful sound down rain-dark walls. Conrad Aiken

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darkened city towers thousand gates gleaming terraced roofs huddled somnolent whisper loves hates slow wind flows drearily streams falls mournful sound rain-dark walls

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