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The dead diplomat, inseparable
On his finger-end the skeleton-keys
Of compromise and ambiguity.
There too floated the drowned scholar, his hand
Holding his pat reference and apt tag,
Index and document, his subscription
To Authority.

— W. R. Rodgers Awake! and Other Poems (1941)

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The record-keepers of record-breakers,
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Eunuch students of love and peeping Toms.

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