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BATH AFTER SAILING by JOHN UPDIKE

Poet Analysis

First Line: FROM TEN TO FIVE WE WHACKED THE WAVES
Last Line: OF FLIRTING WITH IMMERSION
Subject(s): SAILING & SAILORS;

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