W.H. Auden "For The Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio"
(The Second Wise Man)
My faith that in time's constant
Flow lay real assurance
Broke down on this analysis -
At any given instant
All solids dissolve, no wheels revolve,
And facts have no endurance -
And who knows if it is by design or pure inadvertence
That the Present destroys it's inherited self-importance?
With envy, terror, rage, regret,
We anticipate or remember but never are.
To discover how to be living now
Is the reason I follow this star.
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