next to of course god america i

next to of course god america i

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Edward Estlin Cummings (1894-1962) was an American poet, born in Massachusetts, who studied at Harvard University and later travelled within Europe and North Africa throughout the 1920s and 1913s.

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"next to of course god america i

love you land of the pilgrims' and so forth oh

say can you see by the dawn's early my

country 'tis of centuries come and go

and are no more what of it we should worry

in every language even deafanddumb

thy sons acclaim your glorious name by gorry

by jingo by gee by gosh by gum

why talk of beauty what could be more beaut-

iful than these herotic…