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QUOTATION:He turned over on his side with his one year
Red as a wound
He turned over as if he could be sorry for this
And out of his eyes two great tears rolled, like stones, and he died.
ATTRIBUTION:Jon Silkin (b. 1930), British poet. Death of a Son (l. 40–43). . .

Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse, The. Philip Larkin, ed. (1973) Oxford University Press.
 
 
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