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IN A LARGE GREEK COLONY, 200 B.C. by CONSTANTINE P. CAVAFY

First Line: THAT THINGS IN THE COLONY ARE NOT WHAT THEY SHOULD BE
Last Line: AND AFTER ALL, YOU SEE, WE DO GO FORWARD

Poem Sources:

VOICES OF MODERN GREECE.
  KEELEY, EDMUND & SHERRARD, PHILIP (EDS.)
  (1981)
 
COLLECTED POEMS. EDMUND KEELEY AND PHILIP SHERRARD (TRS.)
  CAVAFY, C. P.
  (1992)
 
THE ESSENTIAL CAVAFY. (EDMUND KEELEY AND PHILIP SHERRARD TRS.)
  CAVAFY, C. P.
  (1995)
 



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