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Poem Explanation

First Line: EVEN SAMUEL JOHNSON FOUND THAT ENDING
Last Line: HOW ELOQUENTLY THE DEAD ARE PRAISED, %WHO THREW THEIR LIVES AWAY

Poem Sources:

THE NEW YORKER, V69#41, DECEMBER 6/93.
  (1993)
 
THE PROBABLE WORLD.
  RAAB, LAWRENCE
  (2000)
 



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