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FLIGHT OF LANGUAGE by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN

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First Line: SOME OF THE LEAVES STAY ON ALL WINTER
Last Line: AND THEN AS THEY FLY OFF WITH THE AIR %THAT ALWAYS THROUGH THEIR LIVES WAS THERE

Poem Sources:

THE NEW YORKER, JUNE 12/00.
  (2000)
 



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