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Stone Walls Along the country roadside, stone on stone, Past waving grain-field, and near broken stile, The walls stretch onward, an uneven pile, With rankling vines and lichen overgrown: So stand they sentinel. Unchanged, alone, They ’re left to watch the seasons’... Poet: Julie Mathilde Lippmann	“Stone the woman, let the man go free” Yes, stone the woman, let the man go free! Draw back your skirts, lest they perchance may touch Her garment as she passes; but to him Put forth a willing hand to clasp with his That led her to destruction and disgrace. Shut up from her the sacred ways of... Poet: Anonymous	An Epitaph (Come knock your heads against this stone) An Epitaph Come knock your heads against this stone For sorrow that poor John Thompsons gone Poet:	How happy is the little Stone How happy is the little Stone That rambles in the Road alone, And doesn't care about Careers And Exigencies never fears — Whose Coat of elemental Brown A passing Universe put on, And independent as the Sun... Poet:
It was a Grave, yet bore no Stone It was a Grave, yet bore no Stone Enclosed 'twas not of Rail A Consciousness its Acre, and It held a Human Soul. Entombed by whom, for what offence If Home or Foreign born — Had I the curiosity... Poet: