dead.": "Alfred Coming Clark," For the Union Dead) that opens to the common mystery, the ultimate poet's question: . . . . But tell me,/Cal, why did we live? Why do we die?'" ("Randall Jarrell,"...
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ROBERT LOWELL THE DEAD I\ EUROPE After the planes unloaded, we fell down Buried together, unmarried men and women; Not crown of thorns, not iron, not Lombard crown, Not grilled and spindle...
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618 THE COMMONWEAL October x I, I946 founded on the Gospel and were applied in similar manner according to the circumstances of their times by the early Fathers, the doctors of the Church of...
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July I2, z946 THE COMMONWEAL 3oj onto the next street behind us? We would still be in the same block, but facing another way. Thus we could avoid all this traffic and still be contained in our...
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June 22, 1945 THE COMMONWEAL 241 We must take what comes. What Merton writes is his own, subtle and intense. So small and genuine an achievement is worth consideration. The purpose of this review...
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