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Send me out into another life lord because this one is growing faint I do not think it goes all the way
W. S. Merwin
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W. S. Merwin
Age: 91 †
Born: 1927
Born: September 30
Died: 2019
Died: March 15
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New York City
New York
William Stanley Merwin
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I needed my mistakes in their order to get me here
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Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
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