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From: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
Date: 20050117
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WACKY QUESTIONS

I've been looking for a beautiful poem that Caroline Kennedy read at her mother's funeral. The title was something about Cape Cod. - Georgia, Commerce City

During Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis' 1994 funeral at St. Ignatius Loyola Church in New York, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg read Memory of Cape Cod by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Here are the first couple of lines (you'll find the whole poem at www.geocities. com/Paris/LeftBank/6865/millayad2req.html):

The wind in the ash-tree sounds like surf on the shore at Truro.

I will shut my eyes . . . hush, be ...

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