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QUATRAIN: THE IRON AGE by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH

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First Line: THE WIDE-LIPPED SPHINX, WITH BENT PERPLEXED BROW
Last Line: SENDS ECHO FLYING THROUGH THE MEMPHIAN VALE.
Subject(s): SPHINX;

THE wide-lipped Sphinx, with bent perplexed brow,
Crouches in desert sand, inert and pale,
Hearing the engine's raucous scream, that now
Sends Echo flying through the Memphian vale.



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