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The air is like a butterfly With frail blue wings. The happy earth looks at the sky And sings.
Joyce Kilmer
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Joyce Kilmer
Age: 31 †
Born: 1886
Born: December 6
Died: 1918
Died: July 30
Journalist
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Soldier
Writer
New Brunswick
New Jersey
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I think that I shall never scan A tree as lovely as a man. . . . . A tree depicts divinest plan, But God himself lives in a man.
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In a wood they call the Rouge Bouquet, There is a new-made grave today, Built by never a spade nor pick, Yet covered with earth ten meteres thick. There lie many fighting men. Dead in their youthful prime.
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For nothing keeps a poet In his high singing mood Like unappeasable hunger For unattainable food.
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It is stern work, it is perilous work, to thrust your hand in the sun And pull out a spark of immortal flame to warm the hearts of men: But Prometheus, torn by the claws and beaks whose task is never done, would be tortured another eternity to go stealing fire again.
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Things have a terrible permanence when people die.
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The fairy poet takes a sheet Of moonbeam, silver white His ink is dew from daisies sweet, His pen a point of light.
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What matters Death, if Freedom be not dead? No flags are fair, if Freedom's flag be furled. Who fights for Freedom, goes with joyful tread To meet the fires of Hell against him hurled.
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