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ut ere dark time had shed as rainOr sown on sterile earth as seedThat bears no fruit save tare and weedAn age and half an age again,She rose on Runnymede.
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— E.E. Cummings
It is said that if the dead who died in the Great
War were placed head to feet, they would stretch
from New York to San Francisco, and from San
Francisco back again to New York; and if those
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