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We'd like to...

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We'd like to fight but we fear defeat,
We'd like to work but we're feeling too weak,
We'd like to be sick but we'd get the sack,
We'd like to behave, we'd like to believe,
We'd like to love, but we've lost the knack.

Source: The Magnetic Mountain: 33.
-- Cecil Day Lewis, ( 1904-1972), Anglo-Irish poet, critic, and educator; He was appointed Poet Laureate in 1968. He also gained fame as a detective story writer under the name Nicholas Blake.


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