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I thought I heard the dark pounding its head On a rock, crying: Who are the dead?

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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
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Cry
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Rocks
Darkness
Dead
Head
Heard
Pounding
Dark
Crying

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