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FACES I LOVE by GERALD STERN

Poet Analysis

First Line: ONCE AND FOR ALL I WILL LIE DOWN HERE LIKE A DEAD MAN
Last Line: TO PUT THEM BACK TOGETHER-- %THE NAMES I CAN'T FORGET, THE FACES I LOVE

Poem Sources:

LEAVING ANOTHER KINGDOM; SELECTED POEMS.
  STERN, GERALD
  (1990)
 



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