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EARTHLING by BILLY COLLINS

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First Line: YOU HAVE PROBABLY COME ACROSS
Last Line: A RESPECTFUL DISTANCE FROM THE SUN.

Poem Sources:

VERSE AND UNIVERSE; POEMS ABOUT SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS.
  BROWN, KURT (ED.)
  (1998)
 
THE APPLE THAT ASTONISHED PARIS.
  COLLINS, BILLY
  (1988)
 



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