Thanks for replying to my post. I do remember hearing about the Smith version, now, but not the fact that the second stanza shifts ahead to a fallen London, reclaimed by nature. Real cool to hear from the early 19th c.
I ended up on a tangent via Wikipedia, finding "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven" by Barbauld. It presages the hegemonic rise of the U.S. by 130 years, somehow.
I ended up on a tangent via Wikipedia, finding "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven" by Barbauld. It presages the hegemonic rise of the U.S. by 130 years, somehow.