A London Fête Comments
All night fell hammers, shock on shock;
With echoes Newgate's granite clang'd:
The scaffold built, at eight o'clock
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A rather full and explicit description, with all the good and bad, the swell and ebb, that must have made up the event of a public hanging. It's hard to imagine now how such things provided entertainment for a city's inhabitants, but they did. All the well-observed details add up to convey the mixed adventure it must have been. Clearly, people were no different then than they are today.
a very good descriptive poem of a barbaric event that happened a long time ago?
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7/23/2025 4:52:40 PM # 1.0.0
A well communicated poem. Thanks. Sylva.