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		<title>The Darkling Thrush</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[A wintry century’s despair meets a thrush’s song of inexplicable hope.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Channel Firing</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[War’s rehearsal rattles the dead as Hardy exposes modern militarism’s empty thunder.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Thomas Hardy</title>
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