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OCTAVES: 22 by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON

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First Line: THE PROPHET OF DEAD WORDS DEFEATS HIMSELF:
Last Line: OF ANGUISH TO THE LIBERATED MAN.
Subject(s): WRITING & WRITERS;
Forbodings are the fiends of Recreance;
The master of the moment, the clean seer
Of ages, too securely scans what is
Ever to be appalled at what is not;
He sees beyond the groaning borough lines
Of Hell, God's highways gleaming, and he knows
That Love's complete communion is the end
Of anguish to the liberated man.




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