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Richard Meade, The Sword of Morning Star (New York: Signet, 1969), with cover by Jeffrey Jones.
Richard Meade, The Sword of Morning Star (New York: Signet, 1969), with cover by Jeffrey Jones.

I should have been a pair of ragged claws,
Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
--T.S. Eliot,
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock