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...Here lies the sword. Ah, but the work is rare, Precious the symbol. Who has understood How close the evil or how dread the good Who scorns the vestures that the angels wear?
He could make no sense of it. Was the second "who" a relative pronoun with "good" as its antecedent? He compared his own lucid sonnet:
Stele of my past on which engravéd are The pleadings of that long divorce of steel, In which was stolen that directive star, By which I sailed, expunged be. No spar, No mast, no halyard, bowsprit, boom or keel Survives my wreck...
Perhaps, he reflected, the lines were not strictly appropriate to the occasion. He had failed to reflect the popular mood. It was too personal for Time & Tide. He would send it to Survival.
Book Two
Fin de Ligne
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