"Twenty bridges from Tower to Kew— (Twenty Bridges or twenty-two)— Wanted to know what the River knew, For they were young, and the Thames was old And this is the tale that the River told..."
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Rudyard Kipling, "The River’s Tale (Prehistoric)" in C. R. L. Fletcher, A History of England (1911)
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