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"In the winter season the Sun, being driven away from his former path through the heaven by the stormy winds..." - Herodotus, Histories II, 24

Herodotus thought that the sun, When blown from its course, summer's done. That wasn't quite true, Was maybe coo-coo, But thinking about it is fun.

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