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Note from Joe: Sometimes this poem is printed as shown above, but other times the middle line is given as “But if I had to perish twice”. I do not know which is the original version. Do you?

Note added later: It seems that the very first time this poem appeared was in December, 1920, in Harper’s Magazine. That version had “it”, not “I”.


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