Another one of the Nineteenth Century Visions of London, this time from Elliott's 1823 epic poem, Love:

England, like Greece, shall fall, despoil'd, defaced,
And weep, the Tadmor of the watery waste.
The wave shall mock her lone and manless shore;
The deep shall know her freighted wealth no more;
And unborn wanderers, in the future wood
Where London stands, shall ask where London stood?''

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• This was first brought to my attention by Ray Girvan. There's extremely informative and interesting discussion of Elliott, Smith, and Ozymandias by Ray in this blog post on Ozymandias. Highly recommended.

• As Ray points out, it seems highly likely that that Elliott is referring directly to Horace Smith's poem.

• And here's a Link to the original text in Google books.

• Here's a rather strange and unattributed quotation of Elliott in the final section of the New York Times's Notes and Comments section of Wednesday June 18, 1871 (p.3):

Some unknown seer has said:
"Unborn wanderers in the future wood
Where London stands, shall ask where London stood."