Genesis IV,9
The answer to the blood of Abel
Was found among abandoned sheep,
And landlord startled from his sleep
By woman screaming in a stable.
Incidentally, Auden used to miss out articles definite and indefinite in his early poems because he believed some linguistic theory that the article was going to die out as a part of speech. He was therefore adjusting his style for theoretical generations of the future, who never came to be.
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