Corpsey
bandz ahoy
I've been reading a bit of Alexander Pope, and Antony Burgess's book about Joyce "Here Comes Everybody".
The best thing I've read recently is "Verses on the death of Dr Swift" by Jonathan Swift
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45272/verses-on-the-death-of-dr-swift-dspd
St. John himself will scarce forbear
To bite his pen, and drop a tear.
The rest will give a shrug, and cry,
"I'm sorry—but we all must die!"
Indifference, clad in Wisdom's guise,
All fortitude of mind supplies:
For how can stony bowels melt
In those who never pity felt?
When we are lash'd, they kiss the rod,
Resigning to the will of God.
The fools, my juniors by a year,
Are tortur'd with suspense and fear;
Who wisely thought my age a screen,
When death approach'd, to stand between:
The screen remov'd, their hearts are trembling;
They mourn for me without dissembling.
The best thing I've read recently is "Verses on the death of Dr Swift" by Jonathan Swift
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45272/verses-on-the-death-of-dr-swift-dspd
St. John himself will scarce forbear
To bite his pen, and drop a tear.
The rest will give a shrug, and cry,
"I'm sorry—but we all must die!"
Indifference, clad in Wisdom's guise,
All fortitude of mind supplies:
For how can stony bowels melt
In those who never pity felt?
When we are lash'd, they kiss the rod,
Resigning to the will of God.
The fools, my juniors by a year,
Are tortur'd with suspense and fear;
Who wisely thought my age a screen,
When death approach'd, to stand between:
The screen remov'd, their hearts are trembling;
They mourn for me without dissembling.