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Read the following excerpt and answer the given question.

'Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
was not spoken of the soul.'

What is the allusion referred to here?

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The allusion referred to here is Biblical in nature. "Dust thou art, to dust returnest" are the words that God spoke to Adam and Even when casting them out of the Garden of Eden in the Book of Genesis.

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