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  "Thought can but share
Belief—and the tormented soul,
Changing confession to despair,
Must wear a borrowed robe."
Austin Clarke (1896-1974), Irish poet. Night and Morning (l. 6-9). . . Modern American & British Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed., in consultation with Karl Shapiro and Richard Wilbur. (Rev., shorter ed., 1955) Harcourt, Brace and Company.
 
  "How many councils and decrees
Have perished in the simple prayer
That gave obedience to the knee;"
Austin Clarke (1896-1974), Irish poet. Night and Morning (l. 19-21). . . Modern American & British Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed., in consultation with Karl Shapiro and Richard Wilbur. (Rev., shorter ed., 1955) Harcourt, Brace and Company.
 
  "Burn Ovid with the rest. Lovers will find
A hedge-school for themselves and learn by heart
All that the clergy banish from the mind,"
Austin Clarke (1896-1974), Irish poet. Penal Law (l. 1-3). . . New Oxford Book of Irish Verse, The. Thomas Kinsella, ed. and tr. (1986) Oxford University Press.

 
 
 
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