The 79th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 79 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane, in the Arctic. It crosses the Atlantic Ocean, Europe, Asia, the Arctic Ocean and North America.
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That bore us as a part of all the things
It breeds and that was lewder than it is.
Our nature is her nature. Hence it comes,
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Of what was either cloud or smoke
From north to south across the blue;
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