rock-portrait

Updated: May 21, 2025

So we all mused, and, musing, would have forgotten our dinners, had we not been summoned inside the hotel. The repast was not peculiarly relishable; consequently, we had all the more opportunity to feed spiritually upon the masterpiece on the cliff, the rock-portrait of Avon's, of England's, of the World's immortal bard.

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