Russian Grand Priory

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    That is almost the whole of Russian literature: the phenomenal coruscations of the souls of quite commonplace people.
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    Well! If the Bard was weather-wise, who made
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    Blessing turned to blasphemies,
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    Sin is where our Lady sat,
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    Walsingham, Oh farewell!
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