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