Instructions From England

Valentine AcklandValentine Ackland

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Note nothing of why or how, enquire
no deeper than you need
into what set these veins on fire,
note simply that they bleed.Spain fought before and fights again,
better no question why;
note churches burned and popes in pain
but not the men who die.
Valentine Ackland
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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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