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"I do not know much about gods, but I think the river
Is a strong brown god-- sullen, untamed and intractable,
Patient to some degree, at first recognized as a frontier;
Useful, untrustworthy, as a conveyor of commerce;
Then only a problem confronting the builder of bridges."
AUTHOR
T. S. Eliot
KEYWORDS
river, frontier, bridge
GENRE
20th Century Poetry
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