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Louis MacNeice

Louis MacNeice, Irish-born poet. was educated in England. He became a classical scholar and teacher and later was a producer for the British Broadcasting Corporation. In the 1930s MacNeice allied himself with a group

Wolves

by Louis MacNeice (1907–63)

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I do not want to be reflective any more

Envying and despising unreflective things

Finding pathos in dogs and undeveloped handwriting

And young girls doing their hair and all the castles of sand

Flushed, by the children's bed-time level with the shore.

 The tide comes in and goes out again, I do not want 
 To be always stressing either its flux or its permanence, 
 I do not want to be a tragic or philosophic chorus 
 But to keep my eye only on the nearer future 

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