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Sea Battle for a Beautiful Woman

Sea Battle for a Beautiful Woman
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Sea Battle for a Beautiful Woman


This picture illustrates the lines from Tennyson's "Vivien" idyll (later "Merlin and Vivien"):

He saw two cities in a thousand boats
All fighting for a woman on the sea.