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PERPETUITY by CLINTON SCOLLARD

First Line: LAST NIGHT A MIGHTY POET PASSED AWAY
Last Line: AT THAT SAME HOUR ANOTHER BARD WAS BORN!
Subject(s): DEATH; POETRY & POETS; REBIRTH; DEAD, THE;

LAST night a mighty poet passed away;
"Who now will sing our songs?" men cried at morn.
Faint hearts, fear not! Somewhere, though far away.
At that same hour another bard was born!



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