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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MY OWN, MY NATIVE LAND, by MENANDER Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear land, I greet you after many years
Last Line: The ground that nursed me is to me divine.
Subject(s): Homecoming
First Line: Dear land, I greet you after many years
Last Line: The ground that nursed me is to me divine.
Subject(s): Homecoming
DEAR land, I greet you after many years,
And take you to me. Not to every plot
I give such greeting, but to fields of home.
The ground that nursed me is to me divine.
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