The disingenuous
Charm of living
Has its advantages
Properly using
Lips for smiling,
Grace for posture,
Limbs for loving,
Inimitable gesture.
The thinker enjoys
A lonelier quality,
Learning’s shyness
With philosophy’s pity,
The buried city
Of Troy or Babylon
Lost in antiquity,
Though breathing on.
Heart will answer
For limb’s liveliness,
Brain will wonder
In mind’s timelessness.
O frozen dress
Or whirlwind hero,
All gentleness,
All lust like Nero?
The ponderous question
Cleaves the lives
Of the moral rebel
And the constant loves.
So the limb strives
To the mind’s derision
And the mind drives
To the lovers’ schism.
(John Stanier Waller)
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