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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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NOTES ON THE TEXT

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William Wordsworth·1770–1850
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Added in the edition of 1836) I Several years after the event that forms the subject of the foregoingpoem, in company with my friend, the late Mr. Coleridge, I happened tofall in with the person to whom the name of Benjamin is given. Upon ourexpressing regret that we had not, for a long time, seen upon the roadeither him or his waggon, he said:--"They could not do without me; andas to the man who was put in my place, no good could come out of him; hewas a man of no _ideas_." The fact of my discarded hero's getting the horses out of a greatdifficulty with a word, as related in the poem, was told me by aneye-witness.
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