| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (18331908). An American Anthology, 17871900. 1900. |
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| 1547. Whom the Gods Love |
| | | By Mark A. De Wolfe Howe |
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| 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. | |
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