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Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon.

The Persian Version · 1946

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Graves, Robert. "The Persian Version." Poems 1938-1945: Satires and Grotesques. Cassell & Company, 1946, I. 1.

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