That girls are raped, that two boys knife a third. Were axioms to him, who'd never heard… — W.H. Auden
That girls are raped, that two boys knife a third. Were axioms to him, who'd never heard Of any world where promises were kept, Or one could weep because another wept.
The Shield of Achilles · 1952
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Auden, W. H. "The Shield of Achilles." The Shield of Achilles. Faber and Faber/Random House, 1955. Originally published in Poetry, Oct. 1952.
