“And when, amid no earthly moans,
Down, down that town shall settle hence,
Hell, rising from a thousand thrones,
Shall do it reverence.”

— Edgar Allan Poe , The City in the Sea

St. 5.
The City in the Sea (1831)

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American author, poet, editor and literary critic 1809–1849

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