Your eyes, that looked on glory, could discover The angry s… - Joyce Kilmer

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Your eyes, that looked on glory, could discover The angry scar to which the world was blind: And it was grief that made Mankind your lover, And it was grief that made you love Mankind.

Joyce Kilmer

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Alfred Joyce Kilmer (6 December 1886 – 30 July 1918) was an American journalist and poet.

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