From Philip Larkin’s "Faith Healing"

What’s wrong! Moustached in flowered frocks they shake:    By now, all’s wrong. In everyone there […]

David Zahl / 8.26.10
What’s wrong! Moustached in flowered frocks they shake:   
By now, all’s wrong. In everyone there sleeps   
A sense of life lived according to love.
To some it means the difference they could make   
By loving others, but across most it sweeps
As all they might have done had they been loved. 

Read the whole poem here.

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