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God’s AcreWitter BynnerBecause we felt there could not be A mowing in reality So white and feathery-blown and gay With blossoms of wild caraway, I said to Celia, “Let us trace The secret of this pleasant place!“We knew some deeper beauty lay Below the bloom of caraway, And when we bent the white aside We came to paupers who had died: Rough wooden shingles row on row, And God’s name written there — `John Doe'.

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