“For ever… well… it droops the mouth. Till I
Look up.
There's one blue patch no smoke dares touch.
Sky, clear, ineffable, alive with light,
Always the same…
Before, I never knew
Rest and green peace.”

—  Stephen Vincent Benét

Source: Young Adventure (1918), The Lover in Hell

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poet, short story writer, novelist 1898–1943

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