Poem by Ted Hughes

Fighting for Jerusalem

The man who seems to be dead

With Buddha in his smile
With Jesus in his stretched out arms
With Mahomet in his humbled forehead

With his feet in hell
With his hands in heaven
With his back to the earth

Is escorted
To his eternal reward
By singing legions

Of what seem to be flies

1. Examination at the Womb-Door
2. Crow and the Birds

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