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Winter 1940 • Vol. II No. 1 • Poetry |

For Sigmund Freud

When there are so many we shall have to mourn,  
When grief has been made so public, and exposed
  To the critique of a whole epoch
  The frailty of our conscience and anguish,

Of whom shall we speak? For every day they die
Among us, those who were doing us some good
  And knew it was never enough but
  Hoped to improve a little by living.

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W. H. Auden, an Anglo-American poet and essayist, won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for his long poem The Age of Anxiety.

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