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| NUMBER: | 35891 |
| 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 (19151944), Welsh poet. The First Month of His Absence (l. 3335). . .
Norton Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. III. M. H. Abrams, general ed. (5th ed., 1986) W. W. Norton & Company. |
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