“Let your ghost follow
The young men to the Pole, up Everest, to war: by
love, be shot.
For the uncreating chaos descends
And claims you in marriage: though a man, you were
ever a bride:”

—  Stephen Spender

"The Uncreating Chaos"
The Still Centre (1939)

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English poet and man of letters 1909–1995

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