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DROWNING YOUNG MAN by MURIEL RUKEYSER

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First Line: THE DROWNING YOUNG MAN LIFTED HIS FACE FROM THE RIVER
Last Line: HIS FACE IN THE BOILING RIVER, AND IS SURRENDERED DOWN

Poem Sources:

THE COLLECTED POEMS OF MURIEL RUKEYSER.
  RUKEYSER, MURIEL
  (1978)
 



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