Edwin Arlington

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    “He packed a lot of things that she had made
    Most mournfully away in an old chest
    Of hers, and put some chopped-up cedar boughs
    In with them, and tore down the slaughterhouse.”
    —Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)

    “Conscience was the barmaid of the Victorian soul. Recognizing that human beings were fallible and that their failings, though regrettable, must be humoured, conscience would permit, rather ungraciously perhaps, the indulgence of a number of carefully selected desires.”
    —C.E.M. (Cyril Edwin Mitchinson)

    “the cold eternal shores
    That look sheer down
    To the dark tideless floods of Nothingness
    Where all who know may drown.”
    —Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)