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April 25

Ted Kooser born, 1939

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What poet's epitaph reads, "And alien tears will fill for him / Pity's long broken urn, / For his mourners will be outcast men, / And outcasts always mourn"?

Answer ->

Oscar Wilde. The lines are taken from his poem "Ballad of Reading Gaol."

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