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'Be alive,' the land says, 'listen - this is your time, your world, your pleasure.'

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William Stafford
Age: 79 †
Born: 1914
Born: January 17
Died: 1993
Died: August 28
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Hutchinson
Kansas
Listen
Says
Land
Alive
Pleasure
Time
World

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