"It is man who has fallen, not the beasts: that is the message even for the irreligious, and to some extent salvation can be measured by his very treatment of them."
"Water inflated the belly Of Hart Crane, and of Shelley. Coleridge was a dope. Southwell died on a rope."
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Source: Roy Fuller (1942). “The Middle of a War”
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