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Of Being Numerous, 24

In this nation
Which is in some sense
Our home. Covenant!

The covenant is 
There shall be peoples.
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From New Collected Poems. Copyright © 2002 by Linda Oppen. Used with permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation.

Author: 

George Oppen

George Oppen
Born in 1908, George Oppen was known for both his poetry and his political activism, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1969
Date Published: 
2002
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