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TO LOSE THE EARTH by ANNE SEXTON

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First Line: THE WRECKAGE OF EUROPE OR THE BIRTH OF AFRICA
Last Line: YOU WERE FED -- %AND THEN YOU KNEW
Subject(s): GOD; RELIGION;

Poem Sources:

THE COMPLETE POEMS. WITH A FOREWORD BY MAXINE KUMIN.
  SEXTON, ANNE
  (1981)
 



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