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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LOST COUNTRY, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER
First Line: This desperate sorrow is now so shared of all
Last Line: Our foreheads on the ground, a million strong?
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness
First Line: This desperate sorrow is now so shared of all
Last Line: Our foreheads on the ground, a million strong?
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness
This desperate sorrow is now so shared of all,
That should we speak its name, enumerate
Its various parts, the blinding words would fall
As something hardly worth the pain to state.
Most deftly repetition dulls the shock
Of brute event and stills the anguished tongue;
How shall we question God and cry and knock
Our foreheads on the ground, a million strong?
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