Oh, we have had great lovers that we followed to the pyre;
Our boasts out-do the Sabine girls-the Mosque of St. Sophia.
And we are very sure of ours, for when a city falls,
They seize us and they love us and they hurl us from the walls. (Nathalia Crane)

Oh, we have had great lovers that we followed to the pyre; Our boasts out-do the Sabine girls-the Mosque of St. Sophia. And we are very sure of ours, for when a city falls, They seize us and they love us and they hurl us from the walls.

Nathalia Crane

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