"Your father bears an iron reed Filled with a flame that makes us bleed; Your kindly mother loves to tear Feathers and skin to deck her hair."
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Poem A song for Edmund Blunden
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Edward Andrade
Edward Neville da Costa Andrade (27 December 1887 – 6 June 1971) was an English physicist, writer and poet.
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