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THE EXECUTION OF MAXIMILIAN by ARTHUR SZE

Poet Analysis

First Line: MUSKETS TRIGGERED A WHITE SMOKE
Last Line: LIKE FRIENDS LONG UNSEEN, NOW RETURNED.
Subject(s): CAPITAL PUNISHMENT; MAXIMILIAN, EMPEROR OF MEXICO (1832-67); HANGING; EXECUTIONS; DEATH PENALTY;

Poem Sources:

THE REDSHIFTING WEB; POEMS 1970-1998.
  SZE, ARTHUR
  (1998)
 



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