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IT DEPENDS by DEREK WALCOTT

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First Line: IT DEPENDS ON HOW YOU LOOK AT THE CREAM CHURCH ON THE CLIFF
Last Line: HAS LILT THAT LENGTHENS 'THE ROAD' AND MAKES IT IRELAND'S

Poem Sources:

THE NEW YORKER, V72#10, APRIL 29-MAY 6/96.
  (1996)
 
THE BOUNTY.
  WALCOTT, DEREK
  (1997)
 



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