"What did I know, what did I know of love's austere and lonely offices?"
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Those Winter Sundays (lines 13-14)
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Robert Hayden
Robert Earl Hayden (August 4, 1913 – February 25, 1980), born Asa Bundy Sheffey, was an American poet, essayist, and educator. From 1976 to 1978, Hayden was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, the position which in 1985 became the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress.
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