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Bretch (1935), “Questions of a Worker who Reads Wikipedia”

Who built Thebes of the Seven Gates?All articles name the names of kings; I gather the kingsbrought those boulders on their royal backs?And great Babylon, who fell and fell again,Who put’er back together, every time? In which flatsof gold-paved Lima lived the road-pavers?The night the Great Wall of China was finished, where didthe construction crew
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