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'Those Platonists are a curse,' he said, 'God's fire upon the wane, A diagram hung there instead, More women born than men.'
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The poem
'Those Platonists are a curse,' he said, 'God's fire upon the wane, A diagram hung there instead, More women born than men.'
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