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PERSEUS by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE

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First Line: BORROWED WINGS ON HIS ANKLES
Last Line: AND ONE FEELS THE EARTH GOING ROUND AND ROUND THE GLOBE OF THE BLACKENING MANTLE, A BAD MOTH
Subject(s): MYTHOLOGY - CLASSICAL; PERSEUS;

Poem Sources:

READING MODERN POETRY.
  ENGLE, PAUL, & CARRIER, WARREN (EDS.)
  (1955)
 
A LITTLE TREASURY OF MODERN POETRY; ENGLISH & AMERICAN. REVISED EDITION.
  WILLIAMS, OSCAR (ED.)
  (1950)
 
THE WORLD'S BEST POETRY ON CD. 2ND EDITION.
  (1996)
 



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