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Those To Whom Evil Is Done
Originally posted on K Morris – Poet:
Much of my writing is based on the premise that evil begets evil or, as Auden so eloquently puts it, in his poem, “September 1, 1939”: I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return”. (See http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/september-1-1939). I…