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By adam

Tue, 10 Jul 2012
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Columbus and his
kind
Ambition shrunk
Like the globe they
spanned
Might wonder how,
This box sent from
anywhere,
Came to be
An iron canoe
bringing;
New trinkets to old
Europe.
July 2012.

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