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QUOTATION:In a room on the floor below,
Sunless, cooler—a brimming
Saucer of wax, marbly and dim—
I have lit what’s left of my life.
ATTRIBUTION:James Merrill (b. 1926), U.S. poet. The Broken Home (l. 5–8). . .

New Oxford Book of American Verse, The. Richard Ellmann, ed. (1976) Oxford University Press.
 
 
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