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MOTIVE by MURIEL RUKEYSER

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First Line: THE MOTIVE OF ALL OF IT WAS LONELINESS
Last Line: To Lenin with his cry of Dare We Win
Subject(s): LONELINESS; LENIN, VLADIMIR ILYICH (1870-1924);

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