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COSMOLOGICAL EYE by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL

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First Line: VIVID TO THE MYOPIC IS THE BLUE
Last Line: THE MIRROR THAT NUMBS HIM. IT IS HIS ULTIMATE EYE

Poem Sources:

FROM THE FIRST NINE; POEMS, 1946-1976.
  MERRILL, JAMES INGRAM
  (1982)
 
COLLECTED POEMS. EDITED BY J.D. MCCLATCHY AND STEPHEN YENSER.
  MERRILL, JAMES INGRAM
  (2001)
 



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