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History has to live with what was here,clutching and close to fumbling all we had—it is so dull and gruesome how we die,unlike writing, life never finishes.
Abel was finished; death is not remote,a flash-in-the-pan electrifies the skeptic,his cows crowding like skulls against high-voltage wire,his baby crying all night like a new machine.
As in our Bibles, white-faced, predatory,the beautiful, mist-drunken hunter's moon ascends—a child could give it a face: two holes, two holes,my eyes, my mouth, between them a skull's no-nose—O there's a terrifying innocence in my facedrenched with the silver salvage of the mornfrost.
Robert Lowell
Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV (/ˈloʊəl/; March 1, 1917 – September 12, 1977) was an American poet. He was born into a Boston Brahmin family tha
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