# Clever Christian stuff

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If you concatenate such a poem and its reversal, you get a line palindrome poem, in which a message of despair may change to a message of hope (or vice versa). I mentioned one at SDMB in an earlier thread:

> [@Like a palindrome, but not](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-a-palindrome-but-not/618830/5):
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> There’s a famous line palindrome which reverses meaning backward despite that each line is the same. If you’ve never seen it, [“The lost generation poem - you can reverse it”](https://web.archive.org/web/20120408025458/http://www.thoughts.com/ThomasYong/the-lost-generation-peom-you-can-reverse-it) might be worth a look. [I’ve replaced the earlier link to a link to the Wayback Machine’s copy.]
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> [Here’s a Youtube of several young people reading the poem.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWSYPDh7O5Q)

[Here’s another line palindrome poem.](http://www.museworld.com/archives/001265.html)

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