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GNOMONS by RICHARD WILBUR

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First Line: IN APRIL, THIRTEEN CENTURIES AGO,
Last Line: Make with his sun-ringed head a dusky rhyme.
Subject(s): TIME; BEDE, SAINT. THE VENERABLE (673-735); CHRISTIANITY;
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