[PW] Re: Poetry Stumper

[Marian Drabkin]

Wouldn't it be dragon's teeth -- or hydra's heads?
  Or do I have my mythology confused?
   
  Marian Drabkin
  

Shari Haber <shaber at mcls.org> wrote:
  I need help in identifying a poem about Arlington National Cemetery in 
which the grave markers are compared to hydra's teeth. (Actually, the 
patron said that the poem "mentioned" Arlington Cemetery.) The patron's 
husband read the poem about 14 years ago, and paraphrased a illustrative 
line as "men are planted and up pop hydra's teeth."

Any ideas will be gratefully entertained. TIA.

Shari Haber
MCLS Reference Center
shaber at mcls.org

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