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SONG FOR AN ALLEGORICAL PLAY by JOHN CIARDI

Poet Analysis

First Line: AH COULD WE WAKE IN MERCY'S NAME
Last Line: SHALL RISE, GROWN ADMIRABLE, AND BE, %IN MERCY, EACH BY EACH SET FREE

Poem Sources:

POET'S CHOICE
  ENGLE, PAUL & LANGLAND, JOSEPH (EDS.)
  (1962)
 
THE COLLECTED POEMS OF JOHN CIARDI. COMPILED AND EDITED BY EDWARD M. CIFELLI.
  CIARDI, JOHN
  (1997)
 



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