This poem's been running around in my head for a while now, and I can't find the text online. It's called "No Man Believes" and it's by Dylan Thomas. I think the opening goes like "No man believes who when a star falls shot. Cries not aloud blind as a bat." Other lines include "No man believes who cries not, God is not" and something like "Who does not bury his faith in a [something] box and dig it up to crucify it again." Does anyone know this poem? It's been driving me crazy, so I think I'll look for it at the Reg.
A Cool Web of Language
There's a cool web of language weaves us in,
Retreat from too much joy and too much fear:
We grow sea-green at least and coldly die
In brininess and volubility.
--Robert Graves
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