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There is a quote in the book by Hamish Henderson about not letting hate tarnish the soul. I meant to look it up and forgot and now I can't find the quote. Does anyone else remember this? Thanks, Joe

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Lynn Kerr I found this in a web article about Hamish Henderson: "In his great sequence of second world war poems, 'Elegies For The Dead In Cyrenaica,' he asks 'that we should not disfigure ourselves/With villainy of hatred'."
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Jean I found the quote: "let us not disfigure ourselves with hatred." The title of the Hamish Henderson poem is not given. But a hymn written by him is mentioned: "Freedom Come All Ye". It is about fellowship and sympathy.
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