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In memoriam.(Commentary)(Op-Ed)

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From: The Washington Times
Date: 19980330
Author:Fields, Suzanne

We weep for the children of Jonesboro as John Milton wept for Lycidas, Percy Bysshe Shelley for Adonais, Matthew Arnold for Thrysis. The poets find their voices in time-honored elegies, the mournful music of eloquence in tragedy that struggles to find meaning in death.

There is no greater sadness than that for the death of a child, a sapling deprived of blossoms on the tree of life, a bud slain by a premature frost in early springtime. We are helplessly chilled by tragedy. How do such things happen? Why do the demented thrive and the innocent die? Days have passed, but ...

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