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Edwin Muir poem called (I think) 'The Good Town'
Posted by: ALN (---.gsi.gov.uk)
Date: December 30, 2021 12:25PM

Can anyone point me towards the full words of the Edwin Muir poem which ends 'Our peace betrayed us, we betrayed our peace;/ Look at it well: this was the good town once'? I haven't been able to find it on the web.

Many thanks!

Alex


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Re: Edwin Muir poem called (I think) 'The Good Town'
Posted by: allen (193.114.111.---)
Date: December 30, 2021 01:18PM

It is called The Good Town- inspired by pre-war Prague. I don't have access to my books at the moment, so can't give words. It might be worth lookin for a second-hand CP- he wrote some other vg poems.


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Edwin Muir poem called (I think) 'The Good Town'
Posted by: ilza (---.162.243.191.sao.ajato.com.br)
Date: December 30, 2021 05:14PM

I was not able to find it
- just a couple of lines ...
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We have seen
Good men made evil wrangling with the evil,
Straight minds grown crooked fighting crooked minds.
Our peace betrayed us; we betrayed our peace.
Look at it well. This was the good town once.

Edwin Muir
(Orkney May 15,2022 - Jan 3, 2022 Cambridge)


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The Good Town
Posted by: Henry (213.78.117.---)
Date: December 30, 2021 05:28PM

It's in Selected Poems of Edwin Muir edited by T S Eliot. It's rather long, I'm afraid - four verses taking up three pages!

He lived in Swaffham Prior where my brother lived too.


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Re: Edwin Muir poem called (I think) 'The Good Town'
Posted by: ALN (---.gsi.gov.uk)
Date: December 31, 2021 09:32AM

Thanks for all the replies - I will hunt down a Selected Poems.

Alex


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