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London : ‘And mark in every face i meet / Marks of …’

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London : ‘And mark in every face i meet / Marks of weakness, marks of woe’

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London : ‘The mind forged …’

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London : ‘The mind forged manacles i hear’

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London : ‘How the chimney sweepers cry / Every …’

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London : ‘How the chimney sweepers cry / Every black’ning church appalls’.

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London : ‘How the youthful harlot’s curse / Blasts the …’

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London : ‘How the youthful harlot’s curse / Blasts the new-born infant’s tear’.

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The CotLb : ‘All in the valley of death / Rode the …’

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‘All in the valley of death / Rode the six hundred’.

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The CotLB : ‘Forward, the light Brigade ! charge …’

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The cotLb : ‘Forward, the light brigade ! charge for the guns ! he said.’

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The CotLB : ‘ cannon to the right of them, / cannon to the left of them, /….’

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The CotLB : ‘ cannon to the right of them, / cannon to the left of them, / cannon in front of them / volley’d and thunder’d’

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The CotLB : ‘Came thro’ the jaws of Death / Back from the mouth of hell, / All that was …’

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The CotLB : ‘Came thro’ the jaws of Death / Back from the mouth of hell, / All that was left of them, / left of the six hundred,’

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The CotLB : ‘When can their_____ fade ? / O the wild charge they made ! / All the world__________. / …”

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The CotLB : ‘When can their glory fade ? / O the wild charge they made ! / All the world wondered. / Honour the charge they made !’

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Exposure : ‘Watching, we hear the mad gusts tugging on the wire, / ….’

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Exposure : ‘Watching, we hear the mad gusts tugging on the wire, / like twitching agonies of men among its brambles’.

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Exposure : ‘We only know war lasts, rain soaks, and …’

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Exposure : ‘We only know war lasts, rain soaks, and clouds sag stormy’.

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Exposure : ‘Paled flakes with fingering stealth come …’

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Exposure : ‘Paled flakes with fingering stealth come feeling for our faces -‘

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Exposure : ‘- Is it that we …’ ( indented line)

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Exposure : ‘- Is it that we are dying ?’

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Exposure : ‘All their eyes …’

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Exposure : ‘All their eyes are ice’

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Storm on Island : ‘We are prepared : we build …’

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Storm on Island : ‘We are prepared : we build our houses squat’

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Storm on the Island : ‘ You can listen to the thing you fear / forgetting …’

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Storm on the Island : ‘ You can listen to the thing you fear / forgetting that it pummels your house too’

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Storm on the Island : ‘Spits like a …’

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Storm on the Island : ‘Spits like a tame cat/ Turned savage’

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Storm on the Island :’ Wind dives / and strafes invisibly. Space is a salvo, / We are …’

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Storm on the Island :’ Wind dives / and strafes invisibly. Space is a salvo, / We are bombarded by the empty air’

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Bayonet charge : ‘ Suddenly he awoke and… ‘

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Bayonet charge : ‘ Suddenly he awoke and was running’

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Bayonet charge : ‘ a green hedge that dazzled with rifle fire, hearing / bullets …’

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Bayonet charge : ‘ a green hedge that dazzled with rifle fire, hearing / bullets smacking the belly out of the air -‘

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Bayonet charge : ‘His foot hung like/ statuary …’ (doesn’t know why he’s running)

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Bayonet charge : ‘His foot hung like/ statuary in mid-stride ‘

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Bayonet charge : ‘ King, honour, human dignity, etcetera/ dropped ….’

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Bayonet charge : ‘ King, honour, human dignity, etcetera/ dropped like luxuries in yelling alarm.’

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Remains : ‘Three of a kind all letting fly, and I swear ( new stanza ) I see every ….’

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Remains : ‘Three of a kind all letting fly, and I swear ( new stanza ) I see every round as it rips trough his life - ‘

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Remains : ‘ One of my mates goes by / and tosses …’

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Remains : ‘ One of my mates goes by / and tosses his guts back into his body’.

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Remains : ‘And the drink and the drugs won’t …’

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Remains : ‘And the drink and the drugs won’t flush him out-‘

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Remains : ‘But near to the knuckle, here and now, / his …’

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Remains : ‘But near to the knuckle, here and now, / his bloody life in my bloody hands.’

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Poppies : ‘Spasms of Red, disrupting / a blockade/ of …’

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Poppies : ‘Spasms of Red, disrupting / a blockade/ of yellow bias binding around/ your blazer.’

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Poppies : ‘steeled the/ softening …’

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Poppies : ‘steeled the/ softening/ of my face’.

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Poppies : ‘All my / words/ flattened, rolled, turned into ….’

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Poppies : ‘All my / words/ flattened, rolled, turned into felt,/ slowly melting’

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Poppies : ‘After you’d gone I went into your / bedroom/ …’

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Poppies : ‘After you’d gone I went into your / bedroom/ released a song bird form its cage.’

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Poppies : ‘The dove pulled freely…’

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Poppies : ‘The dove pulled freely against the / sky’

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War Photographer : ‘With spools of suffering set out in ordered rows. / ….’

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War Photographer : ‘With spools of suffering set out in ordered rows. / The only light is red and softly glows. ‘

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War Photographer : ‘To fields which don’t explode beneath the feet/ of ….’

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War Photographer : ‘To fields which don’t explode beneath the feet/ of running children in a nightmare heat. ‘

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War Photographer : ‘to do what someone must / and …’

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War Photographer : ‘to do what someone must / and how the blood stained into foreign dust.’

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War Photographer : ‘The readers eyeballs prick/ with ….’ prick = worse pain than suffers in photograph.

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War Photographer : ‘The readers eyeballs prick/ with tears between the bath and pre-lunch beers’.

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The Emigree : ‘There once was a country … i left it as a child/ but …’

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The Emigree : ‘There once was a country … i left it as a child/ but my memory of it is sunlight clear’.

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The Emigree : ‘Time rolls its tanks / and the frontiers …’

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The Emigree : ‘Time rolls its tanks / and the frontiers rise between us, close like waves.’

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The Emigree : ‘ my city comes to me in its own white plane. / it lies …’

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The Emigree : ‘ my city comes to me in its own white plane. / it lies down in front of me, docile as paper’.

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The Emigree : ‘ They mutter death, / and my shadow …’

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The Emigree : ‘ They mutter death, / and my shadow falls as evidence of sunlight.’

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Kamikaze : ‘ The little fishing boats/ strung out like bunting/ on a …’
bunting = patriotic, however the sea it is held on top of/ representing is not transparent in itself ; propaganda.

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Kamikaze : ‘ The little fishing boats/ strung out like bunting/ on a green-blue translucent sea.’

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Kamikaze : ‘only we children still chattered/ and …’ ( next stanza ) ‘till gradually we too ….’

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Kamikaze : ‘only we children still chattered/ and laughed.’ next stanza : ‘ till gradually we too learned to be silent.’

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Kamikaze : ‘he / must have wondered / which …’

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Kamikaze : ‘he / must have wondered / which had been the better way / to die.’

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Ozymandias : ‘Half sunk, a shatter’d visage lies, whose frown/ and wrinkled …’

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Ozymandias : ‘Half sunk, a shatter’d visage lies, whose frown/ and wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command’.

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Ozymandias : ‘Which yet survive, stamp’d …’

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Ozymandias : ‘Which yet survive, stamp’d on these lifeless things,’

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Ozymandias : ‘Round the decay/ of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, / …’

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Ozymandias : ‘Round the decay/ of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, / the lone and level sands stretch far away.’

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Ozymandias : ‘My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings : / look on my works, ….’

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Ozymandias : ‘My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings : / look on my works, Ye mighty =, and despair !’’.

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Exposure : ‘Our brains ache, in the …’

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Exposure : ‘Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that/ knive us …’

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Exposure : ‘But …’

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Exposure : ‘But nothing happens’.

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Storm On the Island : ‘Leaves and branches can …’.

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Storm On the Island : ‘Leaves and branches can raise a tragic chorus in a gale.’

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Bayonet charge : ‘The patriotic tear that had brimmed his eye / sweating …’

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Bayonet charge : ‘The patriotic tear that had brimmed his eye / sweating like molten iron from the centre of his chest.

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Bayonet charge : ‘In what cold clockwork of the stars and the …’

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Bayonet charge : ‘In what cold clockwork of the stars and the nations/ was he the hand pointing that second ?’

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Remains : ‘Probably armed, …’

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Remains : ‘Probably armed, possibly not’.

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War Photographer : ‘A hundred agonies in …’

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War Photographer : ‘A hundred agonies in Black and white.’

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Emigree : ‘The worst news i recieve of it cannot break my original view, the …’

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Emigree : ‘The worst news i recieve of it cannot break my original view, the bright, filled paperweight.’

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Kamikaze : ‘Enough fuel for a …’

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Kamikaze : ‘Enough fuel for a one-way/ journey into history.’

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London : ‘Where the charter’d …’

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London : ‘Where the charter’d Thames does flow.’

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Ozymandias : ‘Nothing …’

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Ozymandias : ‘Nothing beside remains.’

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London : ‘The marriage …’

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London : ‘The marriage hearse.’

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CoTLB : ‘Theirs not to reason why, / Theirs …’

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CoTLB : ‘Theirs not to reason why, / Theirs but to do and die.’

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Storm on the Island : ‘Exploding comfortably …’

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Storm on the Island : ‘Exploding comfortably down on the cliffs.’

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Poppies : ‘Hoping to hear/ your playground …’

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Poppies : ‘Hoping to hear/ your playground voice catching/ on the wind’.

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Emigree : ‘ ‘That child’s vocabulary i …’

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Emigree : ‘ ‘That child’s vocabulary i carried here/ like a hollow doll,’

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War Photographer : ‘In his darkroom, he …’

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War Photographer : ‘In his darkroom, he is finally alone.’

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War Photographer : ‘All flesh… ‘

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War Photographer : ‘All flesh is grass’

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The Prelude : ‘An act of stealth and …’

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‘An act of stealth and troubled pleasure.’

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The Prelude : ‘Heaving through the ….’

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The Prelude : ‘Heaving through the water like a swan.’

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The Prelude : ‘Huge peak, …’

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The Prelude : ‘Huge peak, black and huge.’

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The Prelude : with trembling oars …’

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The Prelude : with trembling oars I turned.’

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The Prelude : ‘My thoughts there …’

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The Prelude : ‘My thoughts there hung a darkness.’

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My Last Duchess : ‘That’s my duchess…looking …’

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My Last Duchess: ‘That’s my duchess…looking as if she were alive.’

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My last Duchess : ‘‘As if she ranked/ my …’’

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My last Duchess : ‘‘As if she ranked/ my gift of a nine hundred year old name/ with anybody’s gift.’’

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My last Duchess : ‘‘called that spot of …’’

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My last Duchess : ‘‘Called that spot of joy into the duchess’ cheek’’

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My last Duchess : ‘I gave commands/ then all …’

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My last Duchess : ‘I gave commands/ then all smiles stopped.’

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My last Duchess : ‘Notice Neptune though …’

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My last Duchess : ‘Notice Neptune though taming a sea horse.’

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Checking out me history : ‘Bandage up me …’

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Checking out me history : ‘Bandage up me eye with me own history.’

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Checking out me history : ‘Dem tell me about Dick …’

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Checking out me history : ‘Dem tell me about Dick Whittington and he cat.’

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Checking out me history : ‘Nanny see-far women of …’

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Checking out me history : ‘Nanny see-far women of mountain dream.’

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Checking out me History : ‘But dem never ________ about Mary _______.’

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Checking out me History : ‘But dem never tell me about Mary Seacole.’

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Checking out me history : ‘I carving out me …’

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Checking out me history : ‘I carving out me own identity.’

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Tissue : ‘‘Paper that lets the …”

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'’Paper that lets the light shine through”

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Tissue : “If buildings were paper, i …”

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“If buildings were paper, i might feel their drift”

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Tissue : “Maps too. The …”

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“Maps too. The sun shines through”

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Tissue : “Fly our lives …”

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“Fly our lives like paper kites”

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Tissue : “Raise a structure …”

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“Raise a structure never meant to last”

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Bayonet charge : “The patriotic tear that had brimmed his eye, sweating …”

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“The patriotic tear that had brimmed his eye, sweating like molten iron from the centre of his chest”.

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