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Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900.

By Mark A. De WolfeHowe

1547 “Whom the Gods Love”

“WHOM the gods love die young;”—if gods ye be,

Then generously might ye have spared to us

One from your vast unnumbered overplus,

One youth we loved as tenderly as ye.