"You alone, Terminus the Mentor,
can teach us how to alter our gestures.
God of walls, doors and reticence, nemesis
overtakes the sacrilegious technocrat,
but blessed is the City which thanks You
for giving us games and grammar and metres"
can teach us how to alter our gestures.
God of walls, doors and reticence, nemesis
overtakes the sacrilegious technocrat,
but blessed is the City which thanks You
for giving us games and grammar and metres"
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Mark
I like Auden’s poem about him: www.nybooks.com/articles/196...
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