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rights things would have been very different.
I
have inherited her resent·
ment against England, taking part with all those who have carried Empire
on their shoulders and been given slums to live in for their pains.
I
have
always hated the English ruling class and as. a result feel that, in many
ways, whatever England gets now is a just retribution. But, at heart,
I
am in great part proud of my English blood and so you have the whole
picture. Perhaps it should be added that my contempt for and distrust of
T.
S.
Eliot and all he does and says comes from the feeling
I
have that he
and others like him have allied themselves with that part of the English
character which unless it is cleansed by an economic and therefore spir–
itual hurricane will destroy that which
r,
in a way very different from
theirs, profoundly love.-W. C. WILLIAMS, June 1, 1941.
Marianne Moore
HE
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DIGESTETH HARDE YRON
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Although the aepyornis
or roc that lives in Madagascar, and
the moa are extinct,
the camel-sparrow, linked
with them in size-the large sparrow
Xenophon saw walking by
a stream-was and is
a symbol of justice.
This bird watches his chicks with
a :r_naternal concentration, after
he has sat on the eggs
at night six weeks, his legs
their only weapon of defense.
He is swifter than a horse;
he has a foot hard
as a hoof; the leopard
is not more suspicious. How
could he, prized for plumes and eggs and young,
even as a riding-
used
beast, respect men hiding
