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		<title>What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “What Lips My Lips Have Kissed” reflects on memory, loss, and the quiet ache of vanished love.]]></description>
		
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		<title>O Captain! My Captain!</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Whitman’s elegy for Lincoln balances public exultation with private grief in a rare, formally rhymed lament.]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Late Walk</title>
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