Poetic Obituaries: As an English teacher in the Atlanta

Public School System for more than 30 years, Mrs. [Sylvia] Sewell took her love of poetry into the classroom. Many of the works she had students, copy, learn and later recite, were some of her favorites, said her daughter Robyn Burns. The cadre of poems included Abou Ben Adhem by James Henry Leigh Hunt, Invictus by William Ernest Henley and James Weldon Johnson's The Creation.

from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Sylvia Sewell, 95, former APS English teacher

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