Edwin Muir
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Edwin Muir (15 May 1887 – 3 January 1959) was a Scottish poet, novelist and translator, born in Deerness, on the Orkney Islands.
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- The world's great day is growing late,
Yet strange these fields that we have planted
So long with crops of love and hate.- One Foot in Eden (1972)
- Long time he lay upon the sunny hill,
To his father's house below securely bound.- Childhood (1983)
- They do not live in the world,
Are not in time and space.
From birth to death hurled
No word do they have, not one
To plant a foot upon,
Were never in any place.- The Animals (1983)
- I have observed in foolish awe
The dateless mid-days of the law
And seen indifferent justice done
By everyone on everyone.- The Brothers (1983)
