Quotation by William Robert Rodgers

Over the stark plain
The stilted mill-chimneys once again spread
Their sackcloth and ashes a flowing mane
Of repentance for the false day that's fled.
William Robert Rodgers (1909–1969), British poet. White Christmas (l. 33–36). . .

Modern American & British Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed., in consultation with Karl Shapiro and Richard Wilbur. (Rev., shorter ed., 1955) Harcourt, Brace and Company.
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