"I am 3/4ths Canadian, and one 4th New Englander - I had ancestors on both sides in the Revolutionary war." - Elizabeth Bishop
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Thursday, February 21, 2019



CCCXXVI

 先生

Unwashed and naughty 
poet, teacher, and good man — 
Wystan Hugh Auden. 


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 Today is W. H. Auden's one hundred twelfth birthday. 


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 "In the prison of his days 
Teach the free man how to praise."


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