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| NUMBER: | 37459 |
| QUOTATION: | They have been waiting for us in a foetor Of vegetable sweat since civil war days, Since the gravel-crunching, interminable departure Of the expropriated mycologist. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Derek Mahon (b. 1941), Irish poet. A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford (l. 2124). . .
Oxford Book of Contemporary Verse, The, 19451980. D. J. Enright, comp. (1980) Oxford University Press. |
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