City Lament
Poetic elegy for a lost or fallen city / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A City Lament is a poetic elegy for a lost or fallen city. This literary genre, from around 2000 BCE onwards, was particularly prevalent in the Mesopotamian region of the Ancient Near East.[1] The Bible's Book of Lamentations concerning Jerusalem around 586 BCE, contains some elements of a city lament.[2]