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STATEMENT by JOHN CIARDI

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First Line: OUR FATHERS, WHOSE ART WAS HEAVEN
Last Line: FOR YOURS IS THE KINDLING, AND THE PYRE, AND THE STORIED ENDEAVOR. -- %A MAN

Poem Sources:

THE COLLECTED POEMS OF JOHN CIARDI. COMPILED AND EDITED BY EDWARD M. CIFELLI.
  CIARDI, JOHN
  (1997)
 



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