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Monday, July 6, 2009

The Changing Light At Sandover - Opening

Admittedly I err by undertaking
This in its present form. That baldest prose
Reportage was called for, that would reach
The widest public in the shortest time.
Time, it had transpired, was of the essence.
Time, the very attar of the Rose,
Was running out. We, though, were ancient foes,

This Is a Borzoi Book
Published by Alfred A. Knopf

Copyright 1980, 1982 by James Merrill
Compilation copyright 2006 by The Literary Estate of James
Merrill at Washington University
Editors' Note copyright 2006 by J. D. McClatchy and Stephen Yenser


Manufactured in the United States of America
First Knopf Hardcover Edition published May 8, 1992
First Knof Paperback Edition published September 10, 1993
Reprinted Six Times
Eighth Printing, August 2003
Second Knop Hardcover Edition published February 14, 2006

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