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SIGNS: 1 by DEREK WALCOTT

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First Line: EUROPE FULFILLED ITS SILHOUETTE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
Last Line: TO THE SMOKE THAT PLUMES FROM DISTANT CHIMNEY STACKS

Poem Sources:

THE BEST AMERICAN POETRY 1998.
  HOLLANDER, JOHN (ED.)
  (1998)
 
THE BOUNTY.
  WALCOTT, DEREK
  (1997)
 



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