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First Line: The spring has swept the ice from all my frozen rivers
Last Line: Just play me your 'solitude,' duke, till I cry myself to sleep
Subject(s): Ellington, Edward Kennedy ("duke"); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Negritude (literary Movement)




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