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Long ago …

No one tore the ground with ploughshares

or parcelled out the land

or swept the sea with dipping oars —

the shore was the world’s end.

Clever human nature, victim of your inventions,

disastrously creative,

why cordon cities with towered walls?

Why arm for war?

— Ovid, Amores, Book 3