...when London shall be an habitation of bitterns, when St. Paul's and Westminster Abbey shall stand, shapeless and nameless ruins, in the midst of an unpeopl'd marsh; when the piers of Waterloo Bridge shall become the nuclei of islets of reeds and osiers and cast jagged shadows of their broken arches on the solitary stream, --
Dedication to Peter Bell the Third by Miching Mallecho Esquire, 1819 Percy Bysshe Shelley
[Waterloo Bridge was opened in June 1817 - see John Constable's painting]
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