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QUOTATION:Thus for each blunt-faced ignorant one
The great grey rigid uniform combined
Safety with virtue of the sun.
Thus concepts linked like chainmail in the mind.
ATTRIBUTION:Thom Gunn (b. 1929), Anglo-American poet. The Byrnies (l. 25–28). . .

Collected Poems [Thom Gunn]. (1994) Faber and Faber.
 
 
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