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He was burned, so he ran into the bamboo grove, but the grove caught fire.
The earth is mankind's ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, it's as though on ...
The catastrophe
Buried in the stair carpet stayed there
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Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
The night was thick and hazy
When the "Piccadilly Daisy"
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When disaster waves, I try not to wave back.
Toll for the brave--
The brave! that are no more:
All sunk beneath the wave,
Fast by their native shore.
The bone-frame was made for
no such shock knit within terror,
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Pompeii has nothing to teach us,
we know crack of volcanic fissure,
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I didn't lead a very wise life, myself, but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come of age very quickly through shipwreck a ...
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