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Pastoral
no, not
ideal undiscovered
taken over to extinct, straits
saddening ships gloating anxious explorers.

		where once North American elephants

		mastodons, horses, hollow-horned

		ruminants 		migrated Bering
		Straits.

	torn forest 	distant 		wooded hills

	Turf to graze verbena

venomous snakes beneath the bushes