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 (n): a state of extreme poverty or destitution
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19 days ago bilby said:


Man's feeble race what ills await!
Labour, and Penury, the racks of Pain,
Disease, and Sorrow's weeping train,
And Death, sad refuge from the storms of fate!
The fond complaint, my song, disprove,
And justify the laws of Jove.
Say, has he given in vain the heavenly Muse?
- T. Gray, 'The Progress of Poesy'.

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