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"Tempt me no more, for I Have known the lightnings hour, The poets inward pride, The certainty of power."
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Cecil Day-Lewis, often written as C. Day-Lewis, was an Anglo-Irish poet and Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1968 until his death. He also wrote mystery stories under the pseudonym Nicholas Blake, most of which feature the fictional detective Nigel Strangeways.
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"They who in folly or mere greed Enslaved religion, markets, laws, Borrow our language now and bid Us to speak up in freedoms cause."
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"Is it birthday weather for you, dear soul? Is it fine your way"
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"Its hard to believe a spirit could die Of such generous glow"
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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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"Do not expect again the phoenix hour, The triple-towered sky, the doves complaining, Sudden the rain of gold and hearts first ease Traced under trees by the eldritch light of sundown."
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