Word: pantasaph
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Dates: during 1945-1945
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...death in 1907, Wilfred Meynell and his poetess-wife Alice took care of Francis Thompson. They sent him to a hospital, then to the monastery at Storrington in Sussex-a country of Roman roads, rolling fields, abandoned chalk mines, rooks and sheep. Later, at the Franciscan monastery at Pantasaph in Wales, where he spent three years Thompson was forbidden money, even for postage stamps, lest he spend it for drugs He walked through the hills, wrapped in an ulster that extended from his neck to his ankles-"gentle, humble and good anc very conscious of his powers, but neve vain...
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