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And from that time on I bathed in the Poem Of the Sea, star-infused and churned into milk, Devouring the green azures where, entranced in pallid flotsam, A dreaming drowned man sometimes goes down.

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Arthur Rimbaud
Age: 37 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 20
Died: 1891
Died: November 10
Arms Trader
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Poet
World Traveler
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Jean Nicholas Arthur Rimbaud
Sea
Bathed
Green
Azure
Goes
Devouring
Stars
Drowned
Churned
Dream
Dreaming
Entranced
Sometimes
Milk
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Men
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Flotsam
Time
Star
Infused

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