IIThe gods talk in the breath of the woods,
They talk in the shaken pine,
And fill the long reach of the old seashore
With dialogue divine;
And the poet who overhears
Some random word they…
CONOVER William Sheldrick, II , a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Richmond, Va., August 27, 1928;
graduated from Lake Forest High School, Lake Forest, Ill., 1946; B.S., Northwestern…
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Scene IIEnter Gower, before the temple of Diana at EphesusGowerNow our sands are almost run;
More a little, and then dumb.
This, my last boon, give me,
For such kindness must relieve me,
That…
WAINWRIGHT Stuyvesant, II , a Representative from New York; born in New York City March 16,
1921; moved to East Hampton, N.Y., in 1927; graduated from Westminster School,
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