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HERMES by ALAN SHAPIRO

First Line: IN THE OLD STORY NO SOONER ARE THE SUITORS
Last Line: THE WESTERN GATES, AND PAST THE LAND OF DREAMS %INTO THE SMOKY FIELDS OF ASPHODEL

Poem Sources:

THE THREEPENNY REVIEW, V14#2, SUMMER /98.
  (1998)
 
THE DEAD ALIVE AND BUSY.
  SHAPIRO, ALAN
  (2000)
 



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