"I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree."
"What matters Death, if Freedom be not dead? No flags are fair, if Freedom's flag be furled. Who fights for Freedom, goes with joyful tread To meet the fires of Hell against him hurled."
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Source: Joyce Kilmer (1968). “Joyce Kilmer: Memoir and poems”
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