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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: I drank in the sense and the music of every line of it, beginning with the very first verses of the ideally beautiful…

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I drank in the sense and the music of every line of it, beginning with the very first verses of the ideally beautiful dedication, and soon knew full pages by heart.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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Kropotkin describes his deep appreciation for the beauty of poetry he studied.

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