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Spender, Richard - Laughing Blood - Wish
Identifier
029043
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
Paul Nash
A description of the experience
Wish
I wish I could descend
From off this stage,
And find an end,
A grateful haven from the rage
Of this drunk, blindly careless age;
From the row of this mad, hurried universe
That cares more for carburettors than for poets,
And seems to slide on down from worse to worse
Oblivious of the sage
And noble names
That strive to keep it from the depthless curse
Of meaningless enjoyment.