AUDEN

When Auden wrote his words, he was angry at the injustices of the Treaty of Versailles, thinking they excused (or at least explained) Nazi aggression towards Poland and the rest of Europe. As Alan I'll let the poet's revisions speak for themselves, but I do wonder if Mr. Scott was aware of Auden's later pangs of regret for excusing the inexcusable. Will Mr. Scott one day feel the same I and the public know
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return.