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Far from his illness The wolves ran on through the evergreen forests, The peasant river was untempted by the fashionable quays; By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.

Far from his illness The wolves ran on through the evergreen forests, The peasant river was untempted by the fashionable quays; By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.

W. H. Auden
Rivers, Mourning, Tongue
W.H. Auden (2016). “Canción de cuna y otros poemas”, p.148, DEBOLS!LLO

By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.

W. H. Auden
Mourning, Tongue, Poet
"In Memory of W. B. Yeats" l. 10 (1940)

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