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''Long time he lay upon the sunny hill,
To his father's house below securely bound.''
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Edwin Muir (1887-1959), Scottish poet. Childhood (l. 1-2). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 198...
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''Those lumbering horses in the steady plough,
On the bare field—I wonder why, just now,
They seemed terrible, so wild and strange,
Like magic power on the stony grange.''
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Edwin Muir (1887-1959), Scottish poet. Horses (l. 1-4). . .
Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Frank Kermode and John Hollan...
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''But famished field and blackened tree
Bear flowers in Eden never known.
Blossoms of grief and charity
Bloom in these darkened fields alone.''
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Edwin Muir (1887-1959), Scottish poet. One Foot in Eden (l. 20-23). . .
New Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1950. Helen Gardner, ed. (1972...
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''The world's great day is growing late,
Yet strange these fields that we have planted
So long with crops of love and hate.''
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Edwin Muir (1887-1959), Scottish poet. One Foot in Eden (l. 3-5). . .
New Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1950. Helen Gardner, ed. (1972) ...
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''They do not live in the world,
Are not in time and space.
From birth to death hurled
No word do they have, not one
To plant a foot upon,
Were never in any place.''
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Edwin Muir (1887-1959), Scottish poet. The Animals (l. 1-6). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1...
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Last night I watched my brothers play,
The gentle and the reckless one,
In a field two yards away.
For half a century they were gone
Beyond the other side of care
To be among ...
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Edwin Muir (1887-1959), Scottish poet. The Brothers (l. 1-6). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., ...
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''I have observed in foolish awe
The dateless mid-days of the law
And seen indifferent justice done
By everyone on everyone.''
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Edwin Muir (1887-1959), Scottish poet. The Brothers (l. 29-32). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed....
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''Barely a twelvemonth after
The seven days war that put the world to sleep,
Late in the evening the strange horses came.''
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Edwin Muir (1887-1959), Scottish poet. The Horses (l. 1-3). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 19...
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''Sometimes we think of the nations lying asleep,
Curled blindly in impenetrable sorrow,
And then the thought confounds us with its strangeness.''
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Edwin Muir (1887-1959), Scottish poet. The Horses (l. 21-23). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., ...
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''The ancestral deed is thought and done,
And in a million Edens fall
A million Adams drowned in darkness,
For small is great and great is small,
And a blind seed all.''
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Edwin Muir (1887-1959), Scottish poet. The Road (l. 31-35). . .
Chief Modern Poets of Britain and America. Gerald DeWitt Sanders, John Herbert Nel...
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