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Today’s Poem: Thanksgiving

Today’s Poem: Thanksgiving

William Dean Howells’s war-exhausted Thanksgiving prayer

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“Those who have more Dinners than appetite / Those who have more appetite than Dinners.” Winslow Homer’s Thanksgiving illustration, The Two Great Classes of Society, for Harper’s Weekly, 1860 (Smithsonian)

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