Tuesday, 17 May 2011

Wednesday, 14 May 1947

Three stanzas from 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol' by Oscar Wilde:

Yet each man kills the thing he loves, 
By each let this be heard, 
Some do it with a bitter look, 
Some with a flattering word, 
The coward does it with a kiss, 
The brave man with a sword!

...
Some love too little, some too long, 
Some sell, and others buy; 
Some do the deed with many tears, 
And some without a sigh: 
For each man kills the thing he loves, 
Yet each man does not die.

...
And alien tears will fill for him 
Pity's long-broken urn, 
For his mourners be outcast men, 
And outcasts always mourn. 





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