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NUMBER:26483
QUOTATION:he had crowded the city so full
that men could not grasp beauty,
beauty was over them,
through them, about them,
no crevice unpacked with honey,
rare, measureless.
ATTRIBUTION:H.D. (1886–1961), U.S. poet and fiction writer. “Cities,” lines 30-35 (1916).

“He” is “the maker of cities.”
 
 
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