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Row after row with strict impunity The headstones yield their names to the element, The wind whirrs without recollection.

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Allen Tate
Age: 79 †
Born: 1899
Born: November 19
Died: 1979
Died: February 9
Author
Literary Critic
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
Winchester
Kentucky
John Orley Allen Tate
Element
Elements
Wind
Names
Headstone
Without
Impunity
Recollection
Strict
Yield

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