THEY are wrong. It is not the knowing of good from evil,
Virtue from vice,
God from devil,
That drives us from paradise:
But the knowing of good from better
Of the gods from God,
Of the spirit of joy from the letter-
This is the flaming rod.
(Jan Struther)
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