The rammed rails crawl underground
In tunnels and craters
To reappear in clear networks of lightning flashes
In the din and the dust.
This is the tentacular city.
And one after the other, the rut grows bigger and bigger.
And rage becomes storm :
The street and its turmoil like cables
Tied around the monuments
Flees and comes back in long enlaces

Verhaeren, Emile: La Ville (1895)

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