In the poem 'London', which of the following suggests that the speaker hears prostitutes swearing but might also mean that he thinks prostitutes are a curse on the city of London?


"""Every black'ning church appals,/And the hapless soldier's sigh"" ( lines 10-11)."


"""In every cry of every man,'In every infant's cry of fear (Lines 5-6)."


"""How the youthful harlot's curse/Blasts the new-born infant's tear"" (Lines 14-15)."


"""The mind-forged manacles I hear"" (Line 8)."

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"""How the youthful harlot's curse/Blasts the new-born infant's tear"" (Lines 14-15)."