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First Line: A WOMAN PRECEDES ME UP THE LONG ROPE
Last Line: hand over hungry hand
Subject(s): AGING;
Full Poem Text Available at
http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/clifton/poems-LC.html#clift1


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