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EPITAPH TO A MAN NOT DEAD by JOHN HEWITT

First Line: THIS WEARY BODY LONG SERVED KINDLY USE
Last Line: AND IF THE BOLTS AND TAPPETS RATTLED LOOSE, %IT WAS THAT JOURNEY'S LENGTH AND VIOLENCE

Poem Sources:

THE COLLECTED POEMS OF JOHN HEWITT. FRANK ORMSBY (ED.)
  HEWITT, JOHN
  (1991)
 



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