Thus for each blunt-faced ignorant one The great grey rigid… - Thom Gunn

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Thus for each blunt-faced ignorant one
The great grey rigid uniform combined
Safety with virtue of the sun.
Thus concepts linked like chainmail in the mind.

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Thomson William "Thom" Gunn (29 August 1929 in Gravesend, Kent – 25 April 2004 in San Francisco) was an Anglo-American poet.

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Birth Name: William Guinneach Gunn

Alternative Names: Thomson William Gunn

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Distorting hackneyed words in hackneyed songs
He turns revolt into a style, prolongs The impulse to a habit of the time.

These seem like bristles, and the hide is tough.
No claw or web here: each foot ends in hoof.

Direct me gods, whose changes are all holy,
To where it flickers deep in grass, the moly.

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