Cecil Day Lewis

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    Nearing again the legendary isle
    Where sirens sang and mariners were skinned,
    We wonder now what was there to beguile
    That such stout fellows left their bones behind.
    Cecil Day Lewis (1904–1972)

    Move then with new desires,
    For where we used to build and love
    Is no man’s land, and only ghosts can live
    Between two fires.
    Cecil Day Lewis (1904–1972)

    The first day on the new world had begun.
    Sydney Boehm (1908–1990)

    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.
    —Cecil Day Lewis (1904–1972)