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Excavating Aldgate Tube Station (1876)

by Ian Whiteley

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Excavating Aldgate Tube Station (1876)

Underneath the rat infested streets
dead bodies were piled high, row on row.
Enshrouded in their grimy, night-soiled sheets.
- thrown to the devils down below.

Dead bodies were piled high, row on row.
Plague pits rampant all around Aldgate.
Thrown to the waiting devils down below -
unmarked graves meant no one knew their fate.

Plague pits rampa...

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Friday 24th October 2014 7:47 pm

aldgate   aldgate tube station   bubonic plaguie   excavations   london   pantoum   plague pits   ebola

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