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QUOTATION:All this slowness, all this hardness,
The nearness that is waiting in my bed,
The gradual self-effacement of the dead.
ATTRIBUTION:Alun Lewis (1915–1944), Welsh poet. The First Month of His Absence (l. 33–35). . .

Norton Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I–II. M. H. Abrams, general ed. (5th ed., 1986) W. W. Norton & Company.
 
 
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