{"id":182235,"date":"2021-04-12T12:00:51","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T11:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=182235"},"modified":"2021-04-03T03:59:50","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T02:59:50","slug":"the-more-loving-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/04\/the-more-loving-one\/","title":{"rendered":"The More Loving One"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Looking up at the stars, I know quite well<\/span>
\nThat, for all they care, I can go to hell,<\/span>
\nBut on earth indifference is the least<\/span>
\nWe have to dread from man or beast.<\/span><\/p>\n

How should we like it were stars to burn<\/span>
\nWith a passion for us we could not return?<\/span>
\nIf equal affection cannot be,<\/span>
\nLet the more loving one be me.<\/span><\/p>\n

Admirer as I think I am<\/span>
\nOf stars that do not give a damn,<\/span>
\nI cannot, now I see them, say<\/span>
\nI missed one terribly all day.<\/span><\/p>\n

Were all stars to disappear or die,<\/span>
\nI should learn to look at an empty sky<\/span>
\nAnd feel its total dark sublime,<\/span>
\nThough this might take me a little time.<\/span><\/p>\n

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From <\/em>Homage to Clio by W. H. Auden, published by Random House. Copyright \u00a9 1960 W. H. Auden, renewed by the Estate of W. H. Auden. Used by permission of Curtis Brown, Ltd.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>W. H. Auden (1907-1973<\/span><\/span>) was admired for his unsurpassed technical virtuosity and ability to write poems in nearly every imaginable verse form; his incorporation of popular culture, current events, and vernacular speech in his work; and also for the vast range of his intellect, which drew easily from an extraordinary variety of literatures, art forms, social and political theories, and scientific and technical information.<\/em><\/p>\n

Go to Original – poets.org<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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