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CLEVEDON VERSES: 4. CUI BONO? by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN

First Line: WHAT COMES
Last Line: WHO CUTS IT CUTS BUT ROCK, OR DIGS THE SAPLESS SAND.
Subject(s): CLEVEDON, GREAT BRITAIN; GRIEF; SORROW; SADNESS;
What comes
Of all my grief? The Arabian grove
Is cut that costly gums
May float into the nostrils of great Jove.
My heart resembles more a desert land:
Who cuts it cuts but rock, or digs the sapless sand.



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