“Sometimes a strange light
shines, purer than the moon,
casting no shadow, that is
the halo upon the bones
of the pioneers who died for truth.”

—  R.S. Thomas

"Groping", p. 12
Frequencies (1978)

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Welsh poet 1913–2000

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