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In Black Despair

In grayish doubt and black despair,
I drafted hymns to the earth and the air,
pretending to joy, although I lacked it.
The age had made lament redundant.

So here's the question - who can answer it -
Was he a brave man or a hypocrite?
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Milosz, Czeslaw. New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001.
(HarperCollins Publishers - 2001).