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Are we no greater than the noise we make
Along one blind atomic pilgrimage
Whereon by crass chance billeted we go
Because our brains and bones and cartilage
Will have it so?

— Edwin Arlington Robinson The Man against the Sky (1950)

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I shall have more to say when I am dead.

The Three Taverns (1920)

No matter what we are, and what we sing,
Time finds a withered leaf in every laurel

The power is yours, but not the sight;
You see not upon what you tread;
You have the ages for your guide,
But not the wisdom to be led.

Your Dollar is your only Word,
The wrath of it your only fear.
You build it altars tall enough
To make you see, but your are blind;
You cannot leave it long enough
To look before you or behind.

Cassandra (1950)

You have made
The cement of your churches out of tears
And ashes, and the fabric will not stand.

Captain Craig (1902)

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