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Washington Monument by Night

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Red footprints wrote on the snow . . .
. . . and stone shoots into stars here
. . . into half-moon mist to-night.

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Tongues wrangled dark at a man.
He buttoned his overcoat and stood alone.
In a snowstorm, red hollyberries, thoughts,
he stood alone.

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Women said: He is lonely
. . . fighting . . . fighting . . . eight years .

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The name of an iron man goes over the world.
It takes a long time to forget an iron man.

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