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Supremacy

1) There is a drear and lonely tract of hell
2) From all the common gloom removed afar:
3) A flat, sad land it is, where shadows are,
4) Whose lorn estate my verse may never tell.
5) I walked among them and I knew them well:
6) Men I had slandered on life's little star
7) for churls and sluggards; and I knew the scar
8) upon their brows of woe ineffable.
9) But as I went majestic on my way,
10) Into the dark they vanished, one by one,
11) Till, with a shaft of God's eternal day,
12) The dream of all my glory was undone,--
13) And, with a fool's importunate dismay,
14) I heard the dead men singing in the sun.

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Edwin Arlington Robinson was born in 1869 and he died in 1935. He was 66 years old when he died.

Edwin Arlington Robinson was born on Dec. 22, 1869, at Head Tide in Maine and until 1897 lived at the family home in Gardiner, Maine, aside from several......

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Approximate Pages: 4 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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