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FAREWELL VOYAGING WORLD! by CONRAD AIKEN

Poet Analysis

First Line: IT WAS THE DEPARTURE, THE SUN WAS RISEN
Last Line: WE SHALL NEVER BE OLDER OR WISER OR DEAD

Poem Sources:

THE NEW YORKER BOOK OF VERSE.
  (1935)
 
THE NEW YORKER BOOK OF POEMS; SELECTED BY THE EDITORS OF THE NEW YORKER.
  (1969)
 



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