Famous Quotes | We’ve cracked the hemispheres...

We’ve cracked the hemispheres with careless hand!
Now, from the Gates of Hercules we flood

Westward, westward till the barbarous brine
Whelms us to the tired world where tasseling corn,
Fat beans, grapes sweeter than muscadine
Rot on the vine: in the land were we born. - Allen Tate
Attribution: Allen Tate (1899–1979), U.S. poet. The Mediterranean (l. 31–36). . . Collected Poems, 1919-1976 [Allen Tate]. (1989) Louisiana State University Press.

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