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Young Adventure, a Book of Poems
Contents:
Lonely Burial
There were not many at that lonely place,
Where two scourged hills met in a little plain.
The wind cried loud in gusts, then low again.
Three pines strained darkly, runners in a race
Unseen by any. Toward the further woods
A dim harsh noise of voices rose and ceased.
— We were most silent in those solitudes —
Then, sudden as a flame, the black-robed priest,
The clotted earth piled roughly up about
The hacked red oblong of the new-made thing,
Short words in swordlike Latin — and a rout
Of dreams most impotent, unwearying.
Then, like a blind door shut on a carouse,
The terrible bareness of the soul’s last house.
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Chicago: Stephen Vincent Benet, "Lonely Burial," Young Adventure, a Book of Poems in Young Adventure, a Book of Poems Original Sources, accessed May 30, 2023, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=H3YPU9XZIDHZ2IY.
MLA: Benet, Stephen Vincent. "Lonely Burial." Young Adventure, a Book of Poems, in Young Adventure, a Book of Poems, Original Sources. 30 May. 2023. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=H3YPU9XZIDHZ2IY.
Harvard: Benet, SV, 'Lonely Burial' in Young Adventure, a Book of Poems. cited in , Young Adventure, a Book of Poems. Original Sources, retrieved 30 May 2023, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=H3YPU9XZIDHZ2IY.
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