...which wil| remain forever open. We may accept them now or lose them now. "History," says Wystan Auden, History to the defeated May say Alas, but cannot help or pardon. History can say Alas to this American civilization of ours as well as to any other. Unless we save...

...: The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism (1932) The stars are dead; the animals will not look : We are left alone with our day, and the time is short...the defeated May say Alas but cannot help or pardon. WH Auden: 'Spain 1937' Eliot's lectures on The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism contain insights...

...the Congress. In the late 1930's WH Auden wrote lines that express our present need to acknowledge and to make amends: "We are left alone with our day....defeated "May say Alas but cannot help or pardon. It is our belief that, though history cannot be unmade, it is well within our power to offer help,...

...a decision inadequate. He will, however, decide: "The stars are dead. The animals will not look. / We are left alone with our day, and the time is short,...History to the defeated / May say Alas but cannot help nor pardon." The narrator pays ironic homage to the elegist's traditional use of the pathetic fallacy:...

...last November at the age of 70. In memory of the 60,000 who are not with us today, I quote WH Auden: We are left alone with our day, and the time is short...but cannot help or pardon. We sincerely hope that Auden's words will not be the epitaph to Executive Order 9066. The Magna Cart a of 1215 was an inspiration...

...make amends: We are left alone with our day, and the time is short and History to the defeated Hay say Alas but cannot help or pardon. We sincerely hope...will not be the epitaph to Executive Order 9066 which expropriated Japanese Americans and sent them to desolate, desert areas of the West and the swamps...

...year in which Darkness at Noon was first published: The stars are dead; the animals will not look: We are left alone with our day, and the time is short,...History to the defeated May say Alas but cannot help nor pardon. These lines could well serve as an epitaph for Koestler's protagonist, who walks down a...

...line of verse, WH Auden reminded those caught up in the passionate crusade of the Spanish Civil War: "History to the defeated may say Alas, but cannot help or pardon." Auden wrote as the first wave of the defeated in Spain was making its painful way northward toward...

...express the need to acknowledge the injustice and to make amends: for are left alone with our day, and History to the defeated May say Alas but cannot help or and the time is short pardon. We sincerely hope that Auden 's words will not be the epitaph to Executive...

...do — no more, no less. It had not been a matter of good or bad karma. 37 Winding Down a Small War History to the defeated May say alas but cannot help or pardon. — WH Auden, "Spain 1937" Even after Komatsubara had fallen back across the Holsten with hardly more...