Wednesday, February 2, 2011

"The Prelude," a poem unfinished

Egypt, now.
Despite everything.



Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,
But to be young was very heaven




William Wordsworth
The Prelude, 1805



2 comments:

  1. "Men are made fools by the gleaming limbs of women, and lo, in a minute they are become discolored carnelians a trifle, a little, the likeness of a dream, and death comes as the end."

    Ancient Egyptian Proverb

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  2. Gosh! And here it is, already February . .

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