"Oh! I could toil for thee o’er burning plains; Could smile at poverty’s disastrous blow; With thee, could wander ’midst a world of snow, Where one long night o’er frozen Scythia reigns."
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Mary Robinson, "XX. To Phaon", Sappho and Phaon (1796)
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Scythia
Scythia was a kingdom created by the Scythians during the 6th to 3rd centuries BC in the Pontic–Caspian steppe.
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