"If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon."
"I will catch Christ with a greased worm, And when the Prince of Darkness stalks My bloodstream to its Stygian term . . . On water the Man-Fisher walks."
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Source: Robert Lowell (1966). “The Achievement of Robert Lowell: A Comprehensive Selection of His Poems with a Critical Introduction”
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