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Dead Boy by John Crowe Ransom

12/2/2008 5:55:10 PM

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Dead Boy

The little cousin is dead, by foul subtraction,
A green bough from Virginia's aged tree,
And none .........
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John Crowe Ransom

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Christopher White (4/18/2005 12:53:00 AM)
This poem is Ransom at his clever best. Too often Ransom seems to verge on collapsing under the weight of his own importance. But I think he pulls off some effective effects here without seeming to be too enamored of his own sleights of hand.

-chrispoet@netscape.net

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