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If God wanted us to bend over he'd put diamonds on the floor.
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    The race’s splendor lifts her lip, exposes Amid her scarlet smile her little teeth; The years are sand the wind plays with; beneath The prisoned music of her deathless roses. Within frostbitten rock ...