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The Planet's Tale: Cantos XXXIX-XLV

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May 25, 2026
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The Planet’s Tale: Cantos XXXIX-XLV

by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole

XXXIX

“Long on us has lain the taint,
Though it was to radar faint.
We the spheres (for I am one),
Suffered under foreign suns,
For some escaped, while those left
Were of higher life bereft,
And to savage customs sunk,
With home in caves, and tree-trunks.
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