Our single purpose was to walk through snow With faces swun… - Stephen Spender

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Our single purpose was to walk through snow With faces swung to their prodigious North Like compass iron.

Stephen Spender

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About Stephen Spender

Stephen Spender (February 28, 1909 – July 16, 1995) was an English poet and essayist who focused on themes of social injustice and the class struggle in his work.

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Birth Name: Stephen Harold Spender

Alternative Names: Sir Stephen Harold Spender • Sir Stephen Spender

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Let your ghost follow The young men to the Pole, up Everest, to war: by love, be shot. For the uncreating chaos descends And claims you in marriage: though a man, you were ever a bride:

I simply had to get there.

Across this dazzling Mediterranean August morning The dolphins write such Ideograms: With power to wake Me prisoned in My human speech They sign: 'I AM!'

Our single purpose was to walk through snow With faces swung to their prodigious North Like compass iron. - Stephen Spender

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