Collected Poems 1931-74 by Lawrence Durrell

Author:Lawrence Durrell [Lawrence Durrell]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780571288809
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2012-10-10T16:00:00+00:00

V

We suffer according to the terms we make

With time in cities: allowing to be rooted from us

Like useless teeth the few great healers

Who understand the penalties of confession,

And cannot fear these half-invented Gods,

Inhabiting our own cities of unconquered pain.

Now the capitals settle slowly in the sea

Of their failures. All the common brute has done

Building like a rat the rotten shanties

Of his self-esteem beside the water’s edge,

His fear and prejudice into a dead index.

It is not enough. We have still to outgrow

The prohibitions in us with the fears they grow from:

For the beloved will be no happier

Nor the unloved less hungry when the miracle begins:

Yet both will be ineffably disclosed

In their own natures by simplicity

Like roses in a giving off of grace.

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