“Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon
The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon.”

— Robert Graves

"The Persian Version," lines 1–2, from Poems 1938-1945: Satires and Grotesques (1946).
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English poet and novelist 1895–1985

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