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SOMEWHERE IN AFRICA by ANNE SEXTON

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First Line: MUST YOU LEAVE, JOHN HOLMES, WITH THE PRAYERS AND PSALMS
Last Line: go down that river with the ivory, the copra and the gold.
Subject(s): HOLMES, JOHN (1904-1962); POETRY & POETS; RELIGION; THEOLOGY;

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