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| Date: | 07 17 1960 |
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| Description: | Houses viewed from an old cemetery lot. |
| Date: | 09 1967 |
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| Description: | View over cornfield of a cemetery on the side of a hill surrounded by a fence. On the hill behind the cemetery are more cornfields. |
| Date: | 09 25 1960 |
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| Description: | A cemetery for pets near Highway 58. Each burial plot is marked with a small wooden cross. Additionally, several plots have accompanying makeshift tombston... |
| Date: | 08 22 1964 |
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| Description: | The Hansen monument in a Washington Island cemetery. The monument is surrounded by a cluster of Tiger Lillies which are no longer blooming. |
| Date: | 07 21 1963 |
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| Description: | View of a small cemetery in the countryside with a tree in the center. The cemetery is enclosed by a thin metal fence with gate. There is a hill in the bac... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | A country cemetery with a row of pine trees in the foreground. In the far distance is a farm. |
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| Description: | Unkind to speak of the ancestral vocabulary as dream-talk, unkind to wake the dreamer |
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| Description: | If everything stopped dead — watches, tickers, hands — on every island something new would bloom and another age begin |
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| Description: | The visionaries: slightly seeing as many improvements as there are egos to reckon with |
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| Description: | Well-scrubbed proprieties, in no danger except the possible over-minding of their own manners or being out-voted by Activists |
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| Description: | Patience we learned and requiem to rest the tense who die For we forgot the brazen earth in courtship of the sky |
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| Description: | The fife and drum are not so innocent the vulture's eye is on the dance |
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| Description: | First-rate minds to write books, guide the young and lead the nation but the target runs close to the ground |
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| Description: | Everybody was wonderful Stars kept rising, pink and gold Trailing threads of breathless music barely out of reach Hand to hand around the n... |
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| Description: | We were promised, we were told that candy came in stripes and boxes But some was stacked, like lost rewards, the chocolate-coated paradoxes |
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| Description: | Something less than the half of everything is the better, the partner, the woman waiting What counselor, over his shoulder, can count the ways |
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| Description: | The monument is now The place is ripe for building a roll-call of seekers out of the earth For each, his glory is the doing and his dre... |
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| Description: | It's a day for celebration, just to be so cheering glad and everyone to know |
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| Description: | All about, wherever a thought stirred, are the memorabilia of its traces. As it is spoken, so is it written; as it is crucified, so is it grav... |
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| Description: | You who were spared I talked with night but last about the velvet years I remember from the window The one that is blown is the one gone wild |
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