"Hunger allows no choice To the citizen or the police; We must love one another or die."
— Love

January 1, 1970

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W. H. Auden, September 1, 1939 (1939) Lines 78-88; for a 1955 anthology text the poet changed this line to "We must love one another and die" to avoid what he regarded as a falsehood in the original.