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GOD OF RAIN, GOD OF WATER by GERALD STERN

Poet Analysis

First Line: EACH SPRING THE LONG-NOSED GOD OF RAIN
Last Line: TO PAY HIM FOR HIS TEARS, TO PAY THE OLD GOD FOR HIS TEAR, %APART FROM EVERYTHING ELSE, TO PAY HIM F

Poem Sources:

LEAVING ANOTHER KINGDOM; SELECTED POEMS.
  STERN, GERALD
  (1990)
 



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