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All earth was but one thought--and that was death,
Immediate and inglorious; and the pang
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Half-starved spiders prey'd on half-starved flies.
When the Somalians were merely another hungry third world people, we sent them guns. Now that they are falling down dead from star ...
There are flood and drouth
Over the eyes and in the mouth,
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In some of the great grain-producing States of the West movements have already been organized to collect flour and meal for the re ...
There was no corn--in the wide market-place
All loathliest things, even human flesh, was sold;
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I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contribute to our present misery, tha ...
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