TheBallad ofReading Jailis asilentwitness to theviolenceof power,the lookssharp-eyedguardshiddenin the shadowsof thedamp coldthat emanates from thestone andyousmangiabones,horrortried it,but it is alsoa testimonyof love,the testimonyand the prophecyof Jonahthrown upon the beachfrom the bellyof the fish. Wildewrote a poemwith the lastbreathof his artand his spiritbroken,he wrote themas an exile,fromsurvivor.The last stanzaof thisballadis the lastof his life.These versesgo backayear and a halfbefore his deathand they wereprobablythe only onesnotwrittenfor the sakeof himself,but for the sakeof life.It was thehighest poetrythat heformedand is one ofthe most representative worksof the nineteenthcentury.
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