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Let us lie down once more by the breathing side Of Ocean, where our live forefathers sleep As if the Known Sea still were a month wide-- Atlantis howls but is no longer steep!

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Allen Tate
Age: 79 †
Born: 1899
Born: November 19
Died: 1979
Died: February 9
Author
Literary Critic
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
Winchester
Kentucky
John Orley Allen Tate
Sleep
Breathing
Known
Wide
Lying
Sea
Howls
Stills
Ocean
Atlantis
Still
Months
Forefathers
Live
Longer
Steep
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Howl
Sides
Month

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