'Names are elegies'
“Something in the air allures the heartbeat:
Salt wind off the harbor; the smell of spice.
Even the names are elegies: India Wharf
(A lost Cathay); bow window in the slums.’’
-- From “Postcard From Boston” (1948), by William Abrahams (1909-90), who was born and raised in the Boston area. He was a famed editor as well as distinguished writer himself.