“O sweet clean earth, from whom the green blade cometh!
When we are dead, my best belovèd and I,
Close well above us, that we may rest forever,
Sending up grass and blossoms to the sky.”

—  Conrad Aiken

Source: Discordants (1916), IV

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American novelist and poet 1889–1973

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