In the Head of Charles Regatta.
“Mary Winslow is dead. Out on the Charles
The shells hold water and their oarblades drag,
Littered with captivated ducks, and now
The bell-rope in King's Chapel Tower unsnarls
And bells the bestial cow
From Boston Common; she is dead….’’
— From ‘‘Mary Winslow,’’ by Robert Lowell (1917-1977)
King’s Chapel (built 1754), in Boston.
