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TO AMERICAN FLYERS IN MOROCCO by WITTER BYNNER

Poet Analysis

First Line: I HAVE WISHED YOU WOUNDED, I HAVE WISHED YOU DEAD
Last Line: THAT HE MAY LIVE TO CRINGE AT HIS OWN NAME.
Subject(s): AIR FORCE - UNITED STATES; MOROCCO;

I have wished you wounded, I have wished you dead,
I have wished you blackened by a wind of flame,
But let me wish for each of you instead
That he may live to cringe at his own name.



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