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ELEGY JUST IN CASE by JOHN CIARDI

Poet Analysis

First Line: HERE LIE CIARDI'S PEARLY BONES
Last Line: Fragments of a written stone / undeciphered but surmised
Subject(s): WORLD WAR II; SECOND WORLD WAR;
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