“Here sits the Unicorn;
The wounds in his side
Still bleed”
Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906–2001) American aviator and author
The Unicorn in Captivity (1955)
“Still falls the Rain —
Still falls the Blood from the Starved Man's wounded Side:
He bears in His Heart all wounds, — those of the light that died,
The last faint spark
In the self-murdered heart, the wounds of the sad uncomprehending dark…”
Still Falls the Rain (1940)
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