Is this city actually dead? Dead to the point where no one will mind if I build a memorial in front of town square? I think it'd be fun if I put up a cenotaph or something with a quote from Rudyard Kipling's Recessional:
[align=center]Far called our navies melt away -
On dune and headland sinks the fire -
Lo, all our pomp of yesterday
Is one with Nineveh and Tyre![/align]
Just a thought. Yea? Nay?
Edit: Ooh, just thought of another good quote, if that one's no good. From Shelley's Ozymandias
[align=center]And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.[/align]