Benet (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} benet) wrote,@ 2008-08-26 13:31:00 |
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Lunchtime update
(From Auden's "New Year Letter"; and also from memory, so pardon any errors.)
"Disturb our negligence and chill,
Convict our pride of its offence;
In all things, even penitence,
Instruct us in the civil art
Of making from the muddled heart
A desert and a City where
The thoughts that have to labour there
May find locality and peace
And pent-up feelings their release.
Send strength sufficient for our day
And point our knowledge on its way:
O da quod jubes, Domine."
(From Auden's "New Year Letter"; and also from memory, so pardon any errors.)
"Disturb our negligence and chill,
Convict our pride of its offence;
In all things, even penitence,
Instruct us in the civil art
Of making from the muddled heart
A desert and a City where
The thoughts that have to labour there
May find locality and peace
And pent-up feelings their release.
Send strength sufficient for our day
And point our knowledge on its way:
O da quod jubes, Domine."
