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Epilogue by Louis Macneice

7/6/2008 7:58:38 PM

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Louis Macneice
(1907 - 1963)

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Epilogue

Rows of books around me stand,
Fence me in on either hand;
Through that forest of dead words
I would hunt the living birds -
So I write these lines for you
Who have felt the death-wish too,
All the wires are cut, my friends
Live beyond the severed ends.

Louis Macneice

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