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Word: koln (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Expectoration or Splenetic Extempore, on my joyful departure from the City of Cologne In Koln, a town of monks and bones, And pavements fank'd with murderous stones, And rags, and hags, and hideous wenches, I counted two and seventy stenches, All well defined and separate stinks! Ye nymphs that reign o'er sewers and sinks, The river Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne; But tell me, nymphs! what power divine Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Fairy Tale | 3/26/1945 | See Source »

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