Their ghosts are gagged, their books are library flotsam,Some of their names – not all – we learnt in schoolBut, life being short, we rarely read their poems,Mere source-books now to point or except a rule,While those opinions which rank them high are basedOn a wish to be different or on lack of taste.

Their ghosts are gagged, their books are library flotsam,Some of their names – not all – we learnt in schoolBut, life being short, we rarely read their poems,Mere source-books now to point or except a rule,While those opinions which rank them high are basedOn a wish to be different or on lack of taste.

– Louis MacNeice –

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