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Today’s Poem: Written After Swimming from Sestos to Abydos

Today’s Poem: Written After Swimming from Sestos to Abydos

Leander swam for Love, Lord Byron for Glory

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May 02, 2025
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Nicolas Régnier, Hero and Leander, 1625 (Wikimedia Commons)

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