And thus it is. The tale I have to tell
Is such another. He who reads shall find
That which he brings to it of Heaven or Hell
For his best recompense where much is blind,
A jest--book or a sermon or mere wind,--
Each as he may,--for life's least godly mirth
Is mingled strangely here with fate unkind,
And this is a true story of the Earth.
The passionate heart of youth with its desires
Is not all noble, and some baseness clings
For ever mixed with its eternal fires,
Else were it single among human things.
And all life's wisdom learns but this last plan,
To jest at tears and weep Man's mirth and Man.
Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: Iv
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
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Poem topics: fate, heart, heaven, noble, wind, wisdom, earth, human, single, eternal, story, true, blind, book, plan, youth, life, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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