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Hervey Allen quote: "Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded."

Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded.

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... for, by all the stars. That tend thy bidding, I do think the bars. That kept my spirit in are burst - that IAm sailing with thee through the dizzy sky! How beautiful thou art! John Keats