Blair House
Blair House is a guest house for state visitors to Washington, D.C. (in the United States of America). During much of the presidency of Harry Truman, it acted as the residence of the President of the United States, while the interior of the White House, which had been found to have serious structural faults, was completely gutted and rebuilt.
Blair House is also the name of a surrealist poem by Daniel C. Boyer that was published in the form of a poster[?] and illustrated by Allison Boyer.
indulge in premature joy. He fed it with larger and larger
yellow, rose at least two feet, and big coals began to form. He
but when the fire had become mostly coals he closed it again, all
let any stray smoke out, and to let plenty of fresh air in.
Now Henry, all his preparations made, no detail neglected,
bark.html">bark floor, took off the sodden moccasins and placed them at one
What a glorious warmth it was! It seemed to enter at his toes
nook and cranny, to dry.html">dry and warm it, and fill it full of new glow
comfort. The moccasins dried on one side, and he turned the
them on again. Then he hung the blanket on the bark wall near
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crevice. Night was coming, and on the little island in the swamp
complained, but he shrugged his shoulders, acknowledging
sat until the blanket had dried, and deep night had fully come.
In the last hour or two Henry did not move. He remained before
the flame of life in him. A glowing bar, penetrating the crevice
beyond the close group of circling trees. The rain still fell
mingled with it. Henry could not remember in his experience a
perpetual darkness, and that he was the only living being on it.
and bright, and he was not unhappy.
He would forget the pangs of hunger, and, wrapping himself in the
raked ashes over them, and he slept one of the soundest sleeps of
at intervals, came gusts of hail that rattled like bird shot on
the door, and lay for a moment or two on the floor, then melted
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