phusion
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Sat Jan-22-05 07:00 PM
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A relevant poem by Rudyard Kipling |
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The Epitaph of a Dead Statesmen
"I could not dig; I dared not rob; Therefore, I lied to please the mob. Now, all my lies are proved untrue, And I must face the men I slew. What tale shall serve me here among Mine angry and defrauded young?" -Rudyard Kipling
Post your favorite poems!
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Sat Jan-22-05 07:12 PM
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1. "Musee des Beaux Arts" by W.H. Auden--one of my favorites. |
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About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters; how well, they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along; How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting For the miraculous birth, there always must be Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating On a pond at the edge of the wood: They never forgot That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse Scratches its innocent behind on a tree. In Breughel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry, But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green Water; and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky, had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.
I also like Fitzgerald's "The Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam", but that's too long to post-- my favorite lines, though,
"The Moving Finger writes, and having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line, Nor all your tears wash out a word of it."
I'm just a real positive person, I guess.
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Sat Jan-22-05 07:15 PM
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2. That is excellent..thanks! |
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