“The meeting of their shadows or that meet
In a book in a barrack, a letter from Malay.
But your war ends. And after it you return”

Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure

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American poet 1879–1955

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“The meeting of their shadows or that meet
In a book in a barrack, a letter from Malay.
But your war ends. And after it you return”