Stephen Vincent Benét - John Brown's Body (1928)

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And kept his heart a secret to the end
From all the picklocks of biographers.

Of Robert E. lee

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Youth is the pollen
That blows through the sky
And does not ask why.

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You can weigh John Brown's body well enough, But how and in what balance weigh John Brown?

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Stonewall Jackson, wrapped in his beard and his silence.

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American Muse, whose strong and diverse heart So many men have tried to understand But only made it smaller with their art, Because you are as various as your land.

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