“And a wandering beauty is a blade out of its scabbard.
You know how dangerous, gentlemen of threescore?
May you know it yet ten more.”

— John Crowe Ransom

"Judith of Bethulia", line 4.
Chills and Fevers (1924)

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American poet 1888–1974

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