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AS A PLANE TREE BY THE WATER by ROBERT LOWELL

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First Line: DARKNESS HAS CALLED TO DARKNESS, AND DISGRACE
Last Line: Cracks with unpicked apples, and at dawn / the small-mouth bass breaks water, gorged with spawn
Subject(s): DECAY; ROT; DECADENCE;
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