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LAST REPUBLICANS by AUSTIN CLARKE

First Line: BECAUSE THEIR FATHERS HAD BEEN DRILLED
Last Line: QUICKLIMED THE LAST REPUBLICANS

Poem Sources:

CONTEMPORARY IRISH POETRY.
  BRADLEY, ANTHONY (ED.)
  (1980)
 
SELECTED POEMS. EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THOMAS KINSELLA.
  CLARKE, AUSTIN
  (1976)
 



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