Forty Seven minutes later. One blog entry done in that interval.
What to say now? I have two poems I can recite by heart: Love by George Herbert and On first reading Chapman’s Homer by John Keats. I now what to memorize this poem by Thomas Carew:
The Unfading Beauty
HE that loves a rosy cheek,
Or a coral lip admires,
Or from star-like eyes doth seek
Fuel to maintain his fires:
As old Time makes these decay,
So his flames must waste away.
But a smooth and steadfast mind,
Gentle thoughts and calm desires,
Hearts with equal love combined,
Kindle never-dying fires.
Where these are not, I despise
Lovely cheeks or lips or eyes.
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