“O Mother of Good Counsel, lend
Intelligence to me!
Encompass me with wisdom,
Thou Tower of Ivory!
"This is the Man of Lies," she says,
"Disguised with fearful art:
He has the wounded hands and feet,
But not the wounded heart."”

—  Joyce Kilmer

Main Street and Other Poems (1917), The Robe of Christ

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American poet, editor, literary critic, soldier 1886–1918

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