Friday, January 12, 2024

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 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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