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The City may refer to:

Specific real cities

• The City of London, commonly called The City
• The City of London, more specifically, the chief and historic financial district of London—and by metonymy, the British financial services sector itself
• The City of New York, often specifically its Manhattan borough, is nicknamed the City
• Toronto, is known by Canadian residents as simply 'The City'
• San Francisco is often referred to as the City by Bay Area residents
• Melbourne CBD is called the City by the residents

Fictional cities

• The City (The Tick), a principal location in The Tick media
• The City (Transmetropolitan), a fictional megacity in the Vertigo comic Transmetropolitan

Art works

• The City (album), an album by Vangelis
• The City (book), a book by Maxmilian Weber
• The City (1999 TV series)
• The City (MTV series), reality television show
• The City (group), a group composed of Charles Larkey, Danny Kortchmar and Carole King
• The City (film), a 1939 documentary film by Steiner and Van Dyke
• "The City" (poem), a poem by Constantine P. Cavafy
• The City (TV series), an American soap opera
• The City (1998 film), a neo-realist film about New York Latinos
• The City (1977), a crime drama film pilot
• The City (play), by Clyde Fitch
• "The City", a song by The Dismemberment Plan from Emergency & I

Other

• The City (XM), a radio station
• The City (mall) or The Block at Orange, a shopping center in California

See also

• City (disambiguation)

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From Wikisource

It was golden and splendid,
  That City of light;
A vision suspended
  In deeps of the night;
A region of wonder and glory, whose temples were marble and white.

I remember the season
  It dawn'd on my gaze;
The mad time of unreason,
  The brain-numbing days
When Winter, white-sheeted and ghastly, stalks onward to torture and craze.

More lovely than Zion
  It shone in the sky
When the beams of Orion
  Beclouded my eye,
Bringing sleep that was filled with dim mem'ries of moments obscure and gone by.

Its mansions were stately,
  With carvings made fair,
Each rising sedately
  On terraces rare,
And the gardens were fragrant and bright with strange miracles blossoming there.

The avenues lur'd me
  With vistas sublime;
Tall arches assur'd me
  That once on a time
I had wander'd in rapture beneath them, and bask'd in the Halcyon clime.

On the plazas were standing
  A sculptur'd array;
Long bearded, commanding,
  rave men in their day--
But one stood dismantled and broken, its bearded face battered away.

In that city effulgent
  No mortal I saw,
But my fancy, indulgent
  To memory's law,
Linger'd long on the forms in the plazas, and eyed their stone features with awe.

I fann'd the faint ember
  That glow'd in my mind,
And strove to remember
  The aeons behind;
To rove thro' infinity freely, and visit the past unconfin'd.

Then the horrible warning
  Upon my soul sped
Like the ominous morning
  That rises in red,
And in panic I flew from the knowledge of terrors forgotten and dead.