GREAT BEGINNINGS, 1813
“The guns spell money’s ultimate reason
In letters of lead on the spring hillside.
But the boy lying dead under the olive trees
Was too young and too silly To have been notable to their important eye.”
(the beginning of the poem “Ultima Ratio Fegum” by Stephen Spender, 1909-1995)
PRESIDENTIAL POLLING
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