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And the wind shall say: "Here were decent godless people: Their only monument the… — T.S. Eliot

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And the wind shall say: "Here were decent godless people: Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls."

T.S. Eliot
1934
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1934
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T.S. Eliot
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Eliot, T. S. The Rock. 1934, Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, England, UK, pt. 1.

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