Life and death are balanced as it were on the edge of a razor ✨ Iliad.…

Homer
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Life and death are balanced as it were on the edge of a razor ✨ Iliad. Poem by Homer, Book X. Translated by Samuel Butler, 1900.
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Life and death are balanced as it were on the edge of a razor ✨ Iliad. Poem by Homer, Book X. Translated by Samuel Butler, 1900.

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