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quinsy

(n): a painful pus filled inflammation of the tonsils and surrounding tissues; usually a complication of tonsillitis
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3 months ago knitandpurl said:

"When she was ill in December, quite seriously so, with a quinsy, I wrote the following little hymn. I began to compose it one morning, before daybreak, but fell asleep at the end of the first two lines. When I waked again the third and fourth were whispered to my heart in a way which I have often experienced."
--The Winner of Sorrow by Brian Lynch, p 80

over 2 years ago fbharjo said:

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