“Water to water, ark again to ark,
From woman back to woman:
So each new victim treads unfalteringly
The never altered circuit of his fate,
Bringing twelve peers as witness
Both to this starry rise and starry fall.”

"To Juan at the Winter Solstice" from Poems 1938-1945 (1946).
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English poet and novelist 1895–1985

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