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FIVE FONDLY REMEMBERED PASSAGES FROM MY CHILDHOOD READING by BILLY COLLINS

Poet Analysis

First Line: WHEN THEY HAD INCHED ABOUT AS CLOSE AS THEY DARED, THEY CROUCHED
Last Line: DELICATE CHINA TEA THINGS

Poem Sources:

GREAT AMERICAN PROSE POEMS; FROM POE TO THE PRESENT.
  LEHMAN, DAVID (ED.)
  (2003)
 



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