The first four lines of Shakespeare's Sonnet No 64,
by way of copperbadge:
When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced
The rich proud cost of outworn buried age;
When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed
And brass eternal slave to mortal rage;
. . . which serves to fill my head with images of a post-apocalyptic Victorian London, which in turn reminds me of
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