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Prompt me, God, But not yet. When I speak Though it be you who speak Through me, something is lost. The meaning is the waiting.
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Birth: | 29th March, 1913 |
Death: | 25th September, 2000 |
Nationality: | Welsh |
Profession: | Anglican, Poet |
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R. S. Thomas was born in Cardiff, the only child of Thomas Hubert and Margaret. The family moved to Holyhead in 1918 because of his father's work in the merchant navy. He was awarded a bursary in 1932 to study at Bangor University, where he read Classics. In 1936, having completed his theological training at St. Michael's College, Llandaff, he was ordained as a priest in the Church in Wales.
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