"The nightingales are singing near The Convent of……" — Thomas Stearns Eliot
"The nightingales are singing near The Convent of the Sacred Heart, And sang within the bloody wood When Agamemnon cried aloud, And let their liquid siftings fall To stain the stiff dishonored shroud."
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Thomas Stearns Eliot
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