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Cup of Gold

John Steinbeck

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1929
Pages
Pages 200

The buccaneers called Panama the Cup of Gold: the richest city in the Americas, the one nobody had taken. Long before he burned it, Henry Morgan was a farm boy climbing a Welsh hillside to Merlin's cottage on Crag-top, to be told he might become a great man for the worst of reasons, because he was a child who wanted the moon to drink from and might never stop wanting it.

You want the moon to drink from as a golden cup
Cup of Gold, John Steinbeck

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