Mar 8, 2012
"And the wounded are healing, / though in a place of flame. / The sick in a great ship / Are riding. They are riding home. / Suppose the dead could crown their wit / With some intemperate exercise, / Spring wine from their ivory, / Or roses from their eyes?" - Thomas Merton from "A Responsory, 1948" in Selected Poems
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