--- Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
>
> And Mr Lourpee sat on the floor of the pension
> dining-room
> Or perhaps it was in the alcove
> And about him lay a great mass of pastells,
> That is, stubbs and broken pencils of pastell,
> In pale indeterminate colours.
> And he admired the Sage of Concord
> "Too broad ever to make up his mind."
> And the mind of Lourpee at fifty
> Directed him into a room with a certain vagueness
> As if he wd.
> neither come in nor stay out
> As if he wd.
> go neither to the left nor the right
> And his painting reflected this habit.
> And Mrs Kreffle's mind was made up,
> Perhaps by the pressure of circumstance, . . .
> Canto XXVIII
>
> On their own feet they came, or on shipboard,
> Camel-back, horse-back, ass-back, mule-back,
> Old civilisations put to the sword.
> Then they and their wisdom went to wrack:
> No handiwork of Callimachus,
> Who handled marble as if it were bronze,
> Made draperies that seemed to rise
> When sea-wind swept the corners, stands;
> His long lamp-chimney shaped like the stem
> Of a slender palm, stood but a day;
> All things fall and are built again,
> And those who build them again are gay.
> From "Lapis Lazuli"
>
> Why Should Not Old Men Be Mad?
>
> by William Butler Yeats
> (1865-1939)
> Why should not old men be mad?
> Some have known a likely lad
> That had a sound fly-fisher's wrist
> Turn to a drunken journalist;
> A girl that knew all Dante once
> Live to bear children to a dunce;
> A Helen of social welfare dream,
> Climb on a wagonette to scream.
> Some think it a matter of course that chance
> Should starve good men and bad advance,
> That if their neighbours figured plain,
> As though upon a lighted screen,
> No single story would they find
> Of an unbroken happy mind,
> A finish worthy of the start.
> Young men know nothing of this sort,
> Observant old men know it well;
> And when they know what old books tell
> And that no better can be had,
> Know why an old man should be mad.
>
> [Frankly, I think that nearly every line is wrong,
> even vicious, here,
> but they do have that old swing.]
>
>
> MADAM,
> Whilst that for which all virtue now is sold,
> And almost every vice, almighty gold,
> That which, to boot with hell, is thought worth
> heaven,
> And for it, life, conscience, yea souls are given,
> Toils, by grave custom, up and down the court,
> To every squire, or groom, that will report
> Well or ill, only all the following year,
> Just to the weight their this day's presents bear;
> While it makes huishers serviceable men,
> And some one apteth to be trusted then,
> Though never after; whiles it gains the voice
> Of some grand peer, whose air doth make rejoice
> The fool that gave it; who will want and weep,
> When his proud patron's favors are asleep;
> While thus it buys great grace, and hunts poor fame;
> Runs between man and man; 'tween dame, and dame;
> Solders crack'd friendship; makes love last a day;
> Or perhaps less: whilst gold bears all this sway,
> I, that have none to send you, send you verse.
>
> >From "EPISTLE TO ELIZABETH COUNTESS OF RUTLAND" by
> Ben Jonson
>
> The Icosasphere
> Marianne Moore
>
> 'In Buckinghamshire hedgerows
> the birds nesting in the merged green density,
> weave little bits of string and moths and
> feathers
> and thistledown,
> in parabolic concentric curves'
> and, working for concavity, leave spherical feats
> of rare efficiency;
> whereas through lack of integration,
>
> avid for someone's fortune,
> three were slain and ten committed perjury,
> six died, two killed themselves, and two paid
> fines for risks they'd run.
> But then there is the icosasphere
> in which at last we have steel-cutting at its
> summit of economy,
> since twenty triangles conjoined, can wrap one
>
> ball or double-rounded shell
> with almost no waste, so geometrically
> neat, it's an icosahedron. Would the
> engineers
> making one,
> or Mr. J. O. Jackson tell us
> how the Egyptians could have set up seventy-eight-
> foot solid granite vertically?
> We should like to know how that was done.
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