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coprolite

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Tue Jan 14, 2025, 08:44 PM Jan 2025

The Cremation of Sam McGee [View all]

Now a promise made is a debt unpaid, and the trail has its own stern code.
In the days to come, though my lips were dumb, in my heart how I cursed that load.


https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45081/the-cremation-of-sam-mcgee
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The Cremation of Sam McGee [View all] coprolite Jan 2025 OP
It's been a good long time old guy Jan 2025 #1
I like it because coprolite Jan 2025 #2
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