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April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in forgetful snow, feedingContents
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A little life with dried tubers.
— Opening lines from The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot, first published this year
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)—From Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", first published this year in his collection New Hampshire
— Wilfred Owen, concluding lines of "Dulce et Decorum est", written 1917, published posthumously this year
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—From A Prayer for My Daughter by W. B. Yeats, written on the birth of his daughter Anne on February 26
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— W. H. Auden, from "September 1, 1939"
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—Closing lines of "Easter, 1916" by W. B. Yeats
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