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Summer 2000 • Vol. XXII No. 3/4 • Poetry |

Decade-Birthday Verses for James Merrill

By Judith Moffett

March 3, 1976

Jimmy’s fifty! When we met
Both of us were nine years brisker.
Time’s a thief who loves to get
Peach fuzz coarsened up to whisker.

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