And all shall be well and/ All manner of thing shall be well/ By the p…

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And all shall be well and/ All manner of thing shall be well/ By the purification of the motive/ In the ground of our beseeching ✨ T. S. Eliot (2014). Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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