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Arch-Curiosity
Jun 9, 2004

So please direct me to the golden path if there's a better place to ask this, but I figured someone here might be able to answer a grammar question...

"Soon you must return to from where you came."

Does this sentence work, grammatically? It seems a little clunky, especially considering it's a song lyric. Is there a better, similarly concise way of saying this? The idea is that this person has been selfishly traveling but must return to their place of origin because their journey is unsustainable. I wondered about using the word "whence," but I don't want to throw around ye olde wordes without knowing that they work grammatically. Anyone have any ideas?

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