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It is, we believe, Idle to hope that the simple stirrup-pump Can extinguish hell.

Henry Reed
Believe, Simple, Pumps
'Chard Whitlow (Mr Eliot's Sunday Evening Postscript)' (1946)
It is, we believe, Idle to hope that the simple stirrup-pump Can extinguish hell.