What is so real as the cry of a child? A rabbit's cry may be wilder Bu…

Sylvia Plath
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What is so real as the cry of a child? A rabbit's cry may be wilder But it has no soul. ✨ Sylvia Plath (2010). Ariel, p.72, Faber & Faber
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