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| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| NUMBER: | 28901 |
| QUOTATION: | quaking muscles in the act of birth, Between her legs a pigmy face appear, And the first murderer lay upon the earth. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Alec Derwent Hope (b. 1907), Australian poet. Imperial Adam (l. 42–44). . . Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company. |
| The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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