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ELEGY FOR A DEAD SOLDIER by KARL SHAPIRO

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First Line: A WHITE SHEET ON THE TAIL-GATE OF A TRUCK
Last Line: Upon a peace kept by a human creed / know that one soldier has not died in vain
Subject(s): DEATH; SOLDIERS; WORLD WAR II; DEAD, THE; SECOND WORLD WAR;
Full Poem Text Available at
https://www.babelmatrix.org/works/en/Shapiro,_Karl-1913/Elegy_for_a_Dead_Soldier


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