A Small Porch by Wendell Berry

Author:Wendell Berry
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Counterpoint

I well consider all that ye haue sayd,

And find that all things stedfastnes doe hate

And changed be: yet being rightly wayd

They are not changed from their first estate;

But by their change their being doe dilate:

And turning to themselues at length againe,

Doe worke their owne perfection so by fate:

Then ouer them Change doth not rule and raigne;

But they raigne ouer change, and doe their states maintaine.41

C. S. Lewis speaks, with justice, of the “deep obscurity”42 of those lines. But we may clarify them somewhat by placing beside them these earlier lines in which Mutability argues that

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