Lymph hearts are organs found in lungfishes, all amphibians, reptiles and flightless birds. They function as small pumps that pump lymph (fluid, proteins and ions) that has leaked out of the circulatory system, back into the circulatory system.
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“For when they meet, the tensile air
Like fine steel strains under the weight
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Pure passion once, now purest hate....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)