Death in Boston
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.