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MERCIAN HYMNS: 27 by GEOFFREY HILL

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First Line: NOW WHEN KING OFFA WAS ALIVE AND DEAD, THEY WERE
Last Line: Dripped red in the arena of its uprooting
Subject(s): OFFA (D. 796), KING OF MERCIA;
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