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Spender, Richard - Laughing Blood - Searchlights
Identifier
029038
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
Paul Nash - Menin road
A description of the experience
Searchlights
What angel
Stooping to earth to bless
The feathered trees
With her cool and ivory feet
Opens the door to heaven
And sheds a chink of light across
The blank blue wall?
What great God
Hunts so mightily in heaven
That he has hurled his darts
To stand quivering,
Coldly fixed
In the Earth's breast
Behind those trembling trees