Quaking muscles in the act of birth, Between her legs a pigmy face appear, And the first murderer lay upon the earth. (A. D. Hope)

Quaking muscles in the act of birth, Between her legs a pigmy face appear, And the first murderer lay upon the earth.

A. D. Hope

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