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Photographer: Allen C. Browne
Taken: October 7, 2012
Caption: The Ropewalk
Additional Description: In that building, long and low,
With its windows all a-row,
Like the port-holes of a hulk,
Human spiders spin and spin,
Backward down their
threads so thin
Dropping, each a hempen bulk.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1859
Verse from The Ropewalk, in Birds of Passage by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Submitted: April 14, 2021, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p579576
File Size: 2.296 Megabytes

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