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 its 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.
--W. H. Auden, from "The Summons"
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