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THE AVENUE by PAUL MULDOON

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First Line: NOW THAT WE'VE COME TO THE END
Last Line: As if the whole world lay before us
Subject(s): FAREWELL; MORNING; PARTING;
Now that we've come to the end
I've been trying to piece it together,
Not that distance makes anything clearer.
It began in the half-light
While we walked through the dawn chorus
After a party that lasted all night,
With the blackbird, the wood-pigeon,
The song-thrush taking a bludgeon
To a snail, our taking each other's hand
As if the whole world lay before us



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