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Jackson6612 Posted 18 years ago
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lways have we been our own forerunners, and always shall we be.

Always have we been our own forerunners, and always shall we be. And all that we have gathered and shall gather shall be but seeds for fields yet unploughed. We are the fields and the ploughmen, the gatherers and the gathered.



have we been and shall we be, when is this inversion used?


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have we been and shall we be , when is this inversion used? When you are Kahlil Gibran, waxing poetic in the 1920s.

— Mister Micawber

  • have we been and shall we be , when is this inversion used?
  • When you are Kahlil Gibran, waxing poetic in the 1920s.
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have we been and shall we be, when is this inversion used?
When you are Kahlil Gibran, waxing poetic in the 1920s.
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