Edwin Arlington

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    “He never told us what he was,
    Or what mischance, or other cause,
    Had banished him from better days
    To play the Prince of Castaways.”
    —Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)

    “Conscience was the barmaid of the Victorian soul. Recognizing that human beings were fallible and that their failings, though regrettable, must be humoured, conscience would permit, rather ungraciously perhaps, the indulgence of a number of carefully selected desires.”
    —C.E.M. (Cyril Edwin Mitchinson)

    “Ah, when shall come love’s courage to be strong!
    Tell me, O Lord—tell me, O Lord, how long
    Are we to keep Christ writhing on the cross!”
    —Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)