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— E.E. Cummings

It is said that if the dead who died in the Great

War were placed head to feet, they would stretch

from New York to San Francisco, and from San

Francisco back again to New York; and if those

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THE LINE-GANG

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Robert Frost·1874–1963
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ere come the line-gang pioneering by.They throw a forest down less cut than broken.They plant dead trees for living, and the deadThey string together with a living thread.They string an instrument against the skyWherein words whether beaten out or spokenWill run as hushed as when they were a thought.But in no hush they string it: they go pastWith shouts afar to pull the cable taut,To hold it hard until they make it fast,To ease away--they have it. With a laugh,An oath of towns that set the wild at naughtThey bring the telephone and telegraph.
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