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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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verb

To pronounce with an accent or vocal stress.

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alters

Part of SpeechnounUsed In Literature ↓

A table or similar flat-topped structure used for religious rites.

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Poetry examples for alters

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

being delighted to bathe in Jiery floods. Upon supposition therefore of this

absurdity being chargeable on the old text, he alters delighted spirit to de^

lifiquent spirit: A change which totally loses the whole spirit of the poet's

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