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CHORD by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN

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First Line: WHILE KEATS WROTE THEY WERE CUTTING DOWN THE SANDALWOOD FORESTS
Last Line: AND AN AGE ARRIVED WHEN EVERYTHING WAS EXPLAINED IN ANOTHER LANGUAGE

Poem Sources:

THE ATLANTIC, V260#LJ1/87.
  (1987)
 
THE RAIN IN THE TREES.
  MERWIN, W. S.
  (1988)
 



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