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NAKED I CAME by PALLADAS

First Line: NAKED I REACHED THE WORLD AT BIRTH
Last Line: SEEING THE END IS NAKEDNESS?
Subject(s): NUDITY; NAKEDNESS;
Naked I reached the world at birth;
Naked I pass beneath the earth:
Why toil I, then, in vain distress,
Seeing the end is nakedness?



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