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The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems

by Vachel Lindsay

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America at War with Germany, Beginning April, 1917

Our Mother Pocahontas

(Note:—Pocahontas is buried at Gravesend, England.)

“Pocahontas’ body, lovely as a poplar, sweet as a red haw in November or a pawpaw in May—did she wonder? does she remember—in the dust—in the cool tombs?”

Carl Sandburg.

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