History & Politics
After Reading the Sad Story of the Fall of Babylon
From The Golden Whales of California (1920)
History & Politics
Oh Lady, my city, and new flower of the prairie,
What have we to do with this long time ago?
Oh lady love,
Bud of tomorrow,
With eyes that hold the hundred years
Yet to ebb and flow,
And breasts that burn
With great great grandsons
All their valor, all their tears,
A century hence shall know,
What have we to do
With this long time ago?
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MLA
Lindsay, Vachel. “After Reading the Sad Story of the Fall of Babylon.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lindsay/221/.
Chicago
Lindsay, Vachel. “After Reading the Sad Story of the Fall of Babylon.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lindsay/221/.
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