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For the Union Dead (1964)
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Two months after marching through Boston, half the regiment was dead; at the dedication, William James could almost hear the bronze Negroes breathe. Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat. Its Colonel is as lean as a compass-needle. He has an angry wrenlike vigilance, a greyhound's gentle tautness; he seems to wince at pleasure, and suffocate for privacy.
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When I crouch to my television set, the drained faces of Negro school-children rise like balloons.
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On Boylston Street, a commercial photograph shows Hiroshima boiling.
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The aquarium is gone. Everywhere,
giant finned cars nose forward like fish;
a savage servility
slides by on grease.
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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
Robert Lowell
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Born:
March 1, 1917
Died:
September 12, 1977
(aged 60)
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