Savage River

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“There was nothing but that savage ocean between us and Europe.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.... As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see “the River Tiber foaming with much blood.””
—J. Enoch Powell (b. 1912)