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SEEING AUDEN OFF by PHILIP BOOTH

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First Line: ITHACA LAST NIGHT, SYRACUSE AT NOON, CEDAR RAPIDS TONIGHT
Last Line: with Ithaca and Syracuse, I wave him off, toward Iowa, tonight
Subject(s): AUDEN, WYSTAN HUGH (1907-1973);

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