“I hope that when London is clean passed away and the defeated fields come back again, like an exiled people returning after a war, they may find some beautiful thing to remind them of it all; because we have loved a little that swart old city.”

— Lord Dunsany

Fifty-One Tales http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/etext05/851ta10.txt, Roses

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Irish writer and dramatist 1878–1957

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