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if the cavorting, heedless, nearly naked beach enthusiasts trouble themselves with the ancients’ concerns for their transient days and the forever after. . By repeating several phrases throughout the poem, Nims recreates the booming effect of the train’s racing into the dark and out again, and it was this device that first attracted me to these verses, encouraging me to think about them and thus join his “wassailing scops,” or beer-drinking story singers of old, to ponder our fate. From The Rapido: La Spezia-Genova Glossies of Eden? The slim beaches curled Between rocks and the frill of foam - that's when There’s thunder of tunnels and the underworld. Pitch-black, down Pluto’s flue - till out we’re hurdled Back to sea-dazzle and tile roofs’ cayenne, To glossies of Eden, to slim
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