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Theogony

Book 1, Line 53 by Hugh G. Evelyn-White (English)

(ll. 736-744) And there, all in their order, are the sources and ends of gloomy earth and misty Tartarus and the unfruitful sea and starry heaven, loathsome and dank, which even the gods abhor.

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