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“Struck in the wet mire Four thousand leagues from the ninth buried city I thought of Troy, what we had built her for.” quote by Allen Tate — Download Open image

“Struck in the wet mire Four thousand leagues from the ninth buried city I thought of Troy, what we had built her for.”

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