Quotation by W.H. Auden

'Lead us not into temptation and evil for our sake.'
They will come all right, don't worry; probably in a form
That we do not expect, and certainly with a force
More dreadful than we can imagine.
W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907–1973), Anglo-American poet, essayist. For the Time Being; A Christmas Oratorio (l. 19–20). . .

Juvenilia; Poems, 1922-1928 [W. H. Auden]. Katherine Bucknell, ed. (1994) Princeton University Press.
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