This poem is taken from PN Review 16, Volume 7 Number 2, November - December 1980.

A Cure

I.A. Richards
Backed out, well out, of pain,
Back into life again:
   The still sweet-flowing stream,
     So gentle-smooth
     Its ripples sooth,
   Do us beseem,
Not strain.

When pain invades our scene
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