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Good manners, Madam, are had these days not For your asking, nor mine, nor what-we-used-to-be's. The day is a loud grenade that bursts a smile Of serious weeds in a comic lily plot.

Allen Tate

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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
Serious
Plot
Madam
Days
Manners
Grenade
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Loud
Good
Comic
Bursts
Smile
Lily
Mines
Weeds
Mine
Lilies
Asking
Weed

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