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Summer 1998 • Vol. XX No. 3/4 • Kenyon Review Classics |

The Cities’ Summer Death

By R. T. S. Lowell

From THE KENYON REVIEW, WINTER 1939

The summer hospital enframes
In its fashionable windows
Boats brow-beaten by varnished storms
And curbed-off grass where no cows browse.

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