When out of a clear sky, the brightSky over Japan, they tumbled thedeath of light,For a moment, it's said, there wasbrilliance sword-sharp,A dazzle of white, and then dark.Into the cavernous blackness, ashome to hell,Agonies crowded; and high abovein the swellOf the gentle tide of the sky, lucidand fair,Men floated serenely as angelsdisporting there.
August 6th 1946
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Valentine Ackland
1906-1969/EnglishMary Valentine Ackland was born in 1906 to a wealthy family in London. She suffered an unhappy childhood which endured a convent education and culminated in marriage at 19 to a man with whom she was not in love. She refused to consummate the…
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