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cyanide | 14:52 Thu 08th Feb 2007 | Books & Authors
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My friend is reading Atonement by Ian McEwan(which i haven`t read)and i glanced at the page she was reading and there was a line from a poem that went....in the deserts of the heart /let the healing fountain start.Can anyone tell me the name of the poem?Thanks
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In the deserts of the heart
Let the healing fountain start,
In the prison of his days
Teach the free man how to praise.

This is by W H Auden from his poem entitled In Memory of WB Yeats.

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15:51 Thu 08th Feb 2007
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Thank you,its beautiful isn`t it?
15:58 Thu 08th Feb 2007

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