“Tall as the truth was who; and
wore his
… life
like a …
sky.”

— E.E. Cummings

14
73 poems (1963)
Context: p>a great
man
is
gone.Tall as the truth was who; and
wore his
… life
like a …
sky.</p

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American poet 1894–1962

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