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AFTER IKKYU: 10 by JAMES HARRISON

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First Line: OUR PUP IS GRAVELY ILL
Last Line: IN EVERY THROAT. MAY I LIVE FOREVER.
Subject(s): PRAYER;

Our pup is gravely ill.
She's her own pup too,
first in her own line.
How great thou art o god,
save her, please, the same cry
in every throat. May I live forever.



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