The Ruin [all]
Posted by mdrout on 12th November 2007
This poem, significantly damaged, describes in elegaic tones an ruined building or city. It is often taken to refer to the city of Bath, the only natural hot springs in England, though it is also possible to interpret that passage as referring to a stream of water becoming hot by artificial means (there had been Roman baths in many other parts of England as well).
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