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W. H. Auden Quotes: Alone, alone, about the dreadful wood / Of conscious evil runs a lost mankind, / Dreading to find its Father.
         

Alone, alone, about the dreadful wood / Of conscious evil runs a lost mankind, / Dreading to find its Father.


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