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Rosenbloom is dead.
The tread of the carriers does not halt
On the hill, but turns
Up the sky.
They are bearing his body into the sky.

Wallace Stevens

Wallace Stevens (1879–1955), U.S. poet. "Cortege for Rosenbloom."

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