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Old godheads sink in space and drown Their arks like foundered galleons sucked down.

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Don Marquis
Age: 59 †
Born: 1878
Born: July 29
Died: 1937
Died: December 29
Author
Humorist
Journalist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Illinois
USA
Donald Robert Perry Marquis
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Sink
Atheism
Space
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Ark
Sucked

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