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Taking A Dive
'Stand up and be counted!' they said. 'Be resolute and strong!' There was only one of me So the counting wouldn't take long; But, all the same, I lacked As ever both bottle and......
No Annus Mirabilis
How wrong Larkin was about everything save loss (and that, too, is only a guess?) for the barriers never came down. Only one thing is surely known as certain as sin's wages or......
An Unreconstructed Romantic
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