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Winter 1992 • Vol. XIV No. 1 • Poetry |

Vocation: A Life Suite Based on Four Words from Willa Cather

By Jane Cooper

          1. DESIRE

. . . too strong to stop, too sweet to lose . . .
        (The Song of the Lark)

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