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DaysI966Water Street I962  \nThe Country ofa Thousand Years of PeaceI959(revised edition I970)First Poems I95  \nFICTION  \nThe(Diblos)NotebookI965The SeraglioI957  \nTHE COUNTRY OF A THOUSAND YEARS OF PEACE  \nAND OTHER POEMS  \n# THE\n\nCOUNTRY  \n# OF A\n\nTHOUSAND  \nYEARS  \n# OF PEACE\n\nAND ○THER  \nPOEMS BY  \n# JAMES\n\nMERRILL  \nNEW YORK 1970  \nATHENEUM  \nACKNOWLEDGMENTS:\"Voices from the Other World\"first appearedin The New Yorker.Other poems are reprinted by courtesy of thefollowing:Botteghe Oscure,Folder,The Hudson Review,TheKenyon Review,The Literary Review,The London Magazine,Mandrake,New World Writing,Origin,The Paris Review,PartisanReview,Poetry,Poetry London-New York,Quarterly Review ofLiterature,Semi-Colon,Shenandoah,and The Western Review.  \nEight poems were printed,five for the first time,in I954 by ClaudeFredericks at The Banyan Press,under the title sHORT STORIES.Thosepoems are dedicated to David Jackson.  \nCopyright C1951,1952,1953,1954,1957,1958,1970 by James MerrilAll rights reserved  \nLibrary of Congress catalog card number 79-124963  \nPublished simultaneously in Canada by McClelland and Stewart Ltd.Manufactured in the United States of America byKingsport Press Inc.,Kingsport,TennesseDesigned by Harry FordFirst Revised Edition  \nI  \nII  \nThe Country of a Thousand Years of Peace 2The Octopus 3Fire Poem 4Olive Grove 5Thistledown 6A Timepiece 8The Greenhouse 9The Lovers II  \nSome Negatives:X.at the Chateau I3A Renewal IS  \nKyoto.At the Detached Palace I6Hotel de I'Univers et Portugal I7  \nThe Wintering Weeds 20Upon a Second Marriage 2ISaint 23  \nThe Charioteer of Delphi 25  \nWho Guessed Amis the Riddle of the Sphinx 27A Narrow Escape 28  \nMidas among Goldenrod 30Salome 3IThe Dunes 34Mirror 36  \nIII  \nIV  \nAmsterdam 40Laboratory Poem 43Three Chores 44The Cruise 47  \nThree Sketches for Europa 48AView of the Burning SIMarsyas s2Orfeo 53The Doodler 54  \nThe Perfume s8  \nThe Day of the Ecipse 59Walking All Night 63A 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