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First Line: The sun just drops down through the poplars
Last Line: Individual wild ducks scraped and screamed in along a marsh.
Subject(s): England; Evening; Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941); World War Ii; Writing & Writers; English; Sunset; Twilight; Second World War




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