that's just the wild wood
nature poetry
Tuesday, November 10, 2020
Venetian Lagoon 2016
"Exiled Thucydides knew
All that a speech can say
About Democracy,
And what dictators do,
The elderly rubbish they talk
To an apathetic grave;"
from September 1, 1939
W.H. Auden
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/aug/31/wh-auden-september-1-1939-poem
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