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On this day: June 3rd
Birth of Sydney Smith (1771)
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Random Poem of the Day
Black on the depths of blackest skies
Brennan, Christopher John
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Black on the depths of blackest skies
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whence even the levin seems withdrawn,
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the cities threaten: burning eyes
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ask what dread hand hath slain the dawn.
Notes
2]
levin: lightning.
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