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…showed last 75 words of 626 total…universities paid him tribute. The US Senate adopted a resolution of felicitation on his 75th birthday; the first such resolution ever given to a poet. He was appointed Consultant of Poetry at the Library of Congress, in 1958. He was also invited to speak at the Inauguration of President Kennedy, the first time an American poet has ever been so honored. However, sadly, shortly after midnight on January 28, 1963, he passed away at the age of eighty-nine.