# Quote — R. A. Lafferty, Space Chantey

> The place itself, and ne'er a good word spoke of it,
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> You shiver when you even make a joke of it.Though some go cocky, gaily in hand-basket there,
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> The most fare sadly in a clammy casket there…Undying pain and gaping loss, no doubt of it.
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> A wide way leading in and no way out of it!But none have told the blackest horror shrouded there —
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> Tall teeming terror‚ but it sure is crowded there.

- Author: [R. A. Lafferty](https://www.leafyquotes.com/r-a-lafferty.md)
- Book: [Space Chantey](https://www.leafyquotes.com/r-a-lafferty/space-chantey.md)
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