C. S. Lewis
1898-1963 / Male / Irish
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After Prayers, Lie Cold
Arise my body, my small body, we have striven / Enough, and He is merciful; we are forgiven. / Arise small body, puppet-like and pale, and go,
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An Expostulation
Against too many writers of science fiction / Why did you lure us on like this, / Light-year on light-year, through the abyss,
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As the Ruin Falls
All this is flashy rhetoric about loving you. / I never had a selfless thought since I was born. / I am mercenary and self-seeking through and through:
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Cliche Came Out of its Cage
1 / You said 'The world is going back to Paganism'. / Oh bright Vision! I saw our dynasty in the bar of the House
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Evolutionary Hymn
Lead us, Evolution, lead us / Up the future's endless stair; / Chop us, change us, **** us, **** us.
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On a ****** Error
No. It's an impudent falsehood. Men did not / Invariably think the newer way Prosaic / mad, inelegant, or what not.
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On Being Human
Angelic minds, they say, by simple intelligence / Behold the Forms of nature. They discern / Unerringly the Archtypes, all the verities
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Prelude to Space
An Epithaliamium / So Man, grown vigorous now, / Holds himself ripe to breed,
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Re-adjustment
I thought there would be a grave beauty, a sunset splendour / In being the last of one's kind: a topmost moment as one watched / The huge wave curving over Atlantis, the shrouded barge
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Science-fiction Cradlesong
By and by Man will try / To get out into the sky, / Sailing far beyond the air
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