13 September 2008

Auden

Accurate Scholarship can

Unearth the whole offence

From Luther until now

That has driven a culture mad,

Find what occurred at Linz,

What huge imago made

a psychopathic god:

I and the public know

What all schoolchildren learn,

Those to whom evil is done

Do evil in return.

From September 1, 1939 by W. H. AUDEN

1 Comments:

At 04 November, 2008 04:09, Blogger L M said...

Du lebst noch! Immer wieder gut, bei Dir vorbeizuschauen. (Ich hoffe, Du erkennst mich -- habe mich gerade an Dich erinnert, weil ich mein eigenes Blog-Archiv von Anno 2001 wieder gelesen habe.)

 

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