| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 37240 |
| QUOTATION: | Ambassador Puser the ambassador
Reminds himself in French, felicitous tongue,
What these (young men no longer) lie here for
In rows that once, and somewhere else, were young . . . |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982), U.S. poet. Memorial Rain (l. 1–4). . .
Modern American & British Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed., in consultation with Karl Shapiro and Richard Wilbur. (Rev., shorter ed., 1955) Harcourt, Brace and Company. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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