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ALMOST AN ELEGY by LINDA PASTAN

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First Line: YOU HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE SHADOWS CAST
Last Line: For the eyelid's fringed curtain / to be raised again ... / and slowly lowered
Subject(s): CONDUCT OF LIFE; CHANGE; AGING;

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