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Clouds rosy-tinted in the setting sun,
Depths of the azure eastern sky between,
Plains where the poplar-bordered highways run,
Patched with a hundred tints of brown and green, — Beauty of Earth, when in thy harmonies The cannon's note has ceased to be a part,
I shall return once more and bring to these The worship of an undivided heart.
Of those sweet potentialities that wait For my heart's deep desire to fecundate I shall resume the search, if Fortune grants;
And the great cities of the world shall yet Be golden frames for me in which to set New masterpieces of more rare romance.
Alan Seeger
Alan Seeger (22 June 1888 – 4 July 1916) was an American war poet who fought and died in World War I during the Battle of the Somme, serving in
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