Long Barrows

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    It is the human season on this sterile air
    Do words outcarry breath the sound goes on and on.
    I hear a dead man’s cry from autumn long since gone.

    I cry to you beyond upon his bitter air.
    Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)

    If you want an expert on war, you get a retired general. I’m not exactly a general, but I am retired.
    —Sydney Biddle Barrows (b. 1952)