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61.
I would write a homage to Henry Adams
A tenant farmer who left the West Country
For New England, an ancestor who begot
John, John Quincy, Henry and many of us
More obscure, all tenants
Wrestling to throw of our own tenancy.
The Massachusetts of his mind
Was not of slavery and the plunder
Of King Philip’s War. His garden
Was still a dream.