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IN THE CEMETERY HIGH ABOVE SHILLINGTON by JOHN UPDIKE

Poet Analysis

First Line: WE FIFTH-GRADE BOYS WOULD THREAD TRICOLOR STRIPS
Last Line: THE PATHWAY BACK WITH SHARP-EDGED SWORDS OF STONE

Poem Sources:

ONTARIO REVIEW, #40, SPRING-SUMMER/94.
  (1994)
 



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