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It is the logic of our times,
No subject for immortal verse—
That we who lived by honest dreams
Defend the bad against the worse.
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We'd like to fight but we fear defeat,
We'd like to work but we're feeling too weak,
We'd like to be sick but we'd get the sack,
We'd like to behave, we'd like to believe,
We'd like to love, but we've lost the knack.
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Now the peak of summer's past, the sky is overcast And the love we swore would last for an age seems deceit.
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Cecil Day Lewis
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Born:
April 27, 1904
Died:
May 22, 1972
(aged 68)
Bio:
Cecil Day-Lewis was a British poet and the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1968 until his death in 1972. He also wrote mystery stories under the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake.
Known for:
The poetic image (1947)
The Otterbury Incident (1948)
The complete poems of C. Day Lewis
A Question of Proof (1935)
The private wound (1968)
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