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Francis Thompson

Francis Thompson

Francis Thompson (1859–1907) was an English poet and mystic best known for "The Hound of Heaven," a poem about God's pursuit of the soul. Once homeless and addicted, he…

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"I fled Him down the nights and down the days I fled Him down the arches of the years I fled Him down the labyrinthine ways Of my own mind, and in the"

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