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Edward Silvera, "To Lincoln at Graduation" (1930)

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To Lincoln at Graduation

Your sunsets
Were a red gold voice
Singing a sad
Amen,
And the gray cloud streak
Over Oxford way
Was a finger
Writing
The end.


Published in Four Lincoln University Poets, 1930

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