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CARENTAN O CARENTAN by LOUIS SIMPSON

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First Line: TREES IN THE OLD DAYS USED TO STAND / AND SHAPE A SHADY LAND
Last Line: We never yet had lost a man / or known what death could do
Subject(s): D DAY (JUNE 6, 1944); WORLD WAR II; NORMANDY (FRANCE), INVASION OF; SECOND WORLD WAR;
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http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/171538


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