The Everlasting Mercy
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The Everlasting Mercy is a poem by John Masefield, the UK's second longest serving poet laureate after Alfred, Lord Tennyson.[1]
It was published in 1911 and is styled as the confession of a man who has turned from sin to Christianity. As a work that first made Masefield famous, it shocked early 20th-century British sensibilities with its direct, honest, and therefore often harsh language, as the life of protagonist violent, drunken womanizer Saul Kane is laid out in detail.
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In the third episode of the American TV series Peter Gunn, The Vicious Dog, the last line is the antagonist's, asked why he'd committed the crimes, responding with a quote from The Everlasting Mercy:
O Lord, the sin Done for things there's money in.
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- ^ "Poet Laureates of the UK". Poem Analysis. Retrieved 2024-01-15.
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