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Unread 04-22-2024, 07:25 AM
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Originally Posted by Carl Copeland View Post
I like the folksy idiom, the couplet and the “lipless grins” (which I didn’t recognize, but could be from Eliot).

Webster was much possessed by death
And saw the skull beneath the skin;
And breastless creatures under ground
Leaned backward with a lipless grin.

—Whispers of Immortality, TS Eliot
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