Perché Pensa? Pensando s'Invecchia
Arthur Hugh Clough 1819 (Liverpool) – 1861 (Florence)
To spend uncounted years of pain,
Again, again, and yet again,
In working out in heart and brain
The problem of our being here;
To gather facts from far and near,
Upon the mind to hold them clear,
And, knowing more may yet appear,
Unto one's latest breath to fear
The premature result to draw--
Is this the object, end and law,
And purpose of our being here?
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
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| Stanza Lengths | 11 |
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