When I was a child I truly loved:Unthinking love as calm and deepAs the North Sea. But I have lived,And now I do not sle — John Gardner, Grendel
When I was a child I truly loved:Unthinking love as calm and deepAs the North Sea. But I have lived,And now I do not sle — John Gardner, Grendel
When I was a child I truly loved:Unthinking love as calm and deepAs the North Sea. But I have lived,And now I do not sle — John Gardner, Grendel
When I was a child I truly loved:Unthinking love as calm and deepAs the North Sea. But I have lived,And now I do not sle — John Gardner, Grendel
When I was a child I truly loved:Unthinking love as calm and deepAs the North Sea. But I have lived,And now I do not sle — John Gardner, Grendel
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When I was a child I truly loved:Unthinking love as calm and deepAs the North Sea. But I have lived,And now I do not sleep.

— John Gardner, Grendel
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