''A man must be sacrificed now and again
To provide for the next generation of men.''
Amy Lowell (1874-1925), U.S. poet. "A Critical Fable," st. 2.
''The dead fed you
Amid the slant stones of graveyards.
Pale ghosts who planted you
Came in the night-time
And let their thin hair blow through your clustered stems.''
Amy Lowell (1874-1925), U.S. poet. Lilacs (l. 41-45). . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Pres...
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