Universal Tangent HWYL 04 041

2024-01-23T00:00:00Z

Universal Tangent Sometimes we see astonishingly dearly The out-there when we are already in; Now that is not what we are here-for really. All its to-do is bound to re-occur, Is nothing therefore that we need to say; How then to make its compromise refer To what could not be otherwise instead The once-for-all that is not seen nor said? Tell for the power how to thunderclaps The graves flew open, the rivers ran up-hill; Such staged importance is at most perhaps. Speak well of moonlight on a winding stair, Of light-boned children under great green oaks; The wonder, yes, but death should not be there. One circumlocution as used as any Depends, it seems, upon the joke of rhyme For the pure joy; else why should so many Poems which make us cry direct us to Ourselves at our least apt, least kind, least true, Where a blank I loves blankly a blank You? (p. 14) Auden, W.H. "One Circumlocution." Nones. Faber and Faber, 1930. https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.186608/page/n3/mode/2up