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Page 200 - To where Fleet-ditch with disemboguing streams Rolls the large tribute of dead dogs to Thames, The king of dykes ! than whom no sluice of mud With deeper sable blots the silver flood.
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Knowledge is Power Bohn's scientific library |
| Author | Charles Knight |
| Publisher | Bell and Daldy, 1866 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 25 Oct 2007 |
| Length | 426 pages |
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