"The world's great day is growing late, Yet strange these fields that we have planted So long with crops of love and hate."
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One Foot in Eden (1972)
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Edwin Muir
Edwin Muir (15 May 1887 – 3 January 1959) was a Scottish poet, novelist and translator, born in Deerness, on the Orkney Islands.
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