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I could not accept from wisdom what love taught, woman is perfect.

Hilda Doolittle

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War wreaked on you his hideous ravishment We, we alone, Nereids inviolate, Remain to weep, with the sea-birds to chant: Corinth is lost, Corinth is desolate.
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