Better for us, perhaps, it might appear,
Were there all harmony, all virtue here;
That never air or ocean felt the wind;
That never passion discomposed the mind:
But ALL subsists by elemental strife;
And passions are the elements of life.
The general ORDER, since the whole began,
Is kept in Nature, and is kept in Man.
Pope, Alexander. The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems, "An Essay on Man." New York: Signet Classics, 2003, 91
No comments:
Post a Comment