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T.E. Lawrence – Bio

DTE Studio — Thu, 12 Feb 2015 21:51:53 +0000

Thomas Edward Lawrence was an archaeologist and British Army officer born August 16, 1888. The variety of his activities and associations, and his ability to describe them vividly in writing, earned him international fame as Lawrence of Arabia, a title which was later used for the 1962 film based on his First World War activities. Throughout his life, Lawrence was a prolific writer, a large portion of his work taking the form of correspondences with notable figures including Winston Churchill, George Bernard Shaw, and Edward Elgar. He published three major texts, the most significant being his account of the Arab revolt, Seven Pillars of Wisdom. In 1935, Lawrence passed away after being fatally injured in a motorcycle accident.

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The Seven Pillars of Wisdom

DTE Studio — Thu, 12 Feb 2015 16:22:59 +0000

“I loved you, so I drew these tides of
Men into my hands
And wrote my will across the
Sky and stars
To earn you freedom, the seven
Pillared worthy house,
That your eyes might be
Shining for me
When we came

Death seemed my servant on the
Road, ’til we were near
And saw you waiting:
When you smiled and in sorrowful
Envy he outran me
And took you apart:
Into his quietness

Love, the way-weary, groped to your body,
Our brief wage
Ours for the moment
Before Earth’s soft hand explored your shape
And the blind
Worms grew fat upon
Your substance

Men prayed me that I set our work,
The inviolate house,
As a memory of you
But for fit monument I shattered it,
Unfinished: and now
The little things creep out to patch
Themselves hovels
In the marred shadow
Of your gift.”