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If they'd had writing in time, Cuba could have been Crete,

watery source of the Minoans and thus the Greeks.

What's lost? A possible us

growing like new foliage out of stony ground, emerging?

Last voice, first, a whole world calling—

awful, inaudible—into the unstoppable loud (roaring!)

hurricane-force sea wind.

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