Re: Re[2]: [ga] what we share

["David G. Post" <Postd@erols.com>]

I have found the words written by WH Auden at another dark, dark time 
in human history somehow comforting during the last few days. May we, 
too, 'show an affirming flame.'
David Post

"September 1, 1939"
W.H. Auden


I sit in one of the dives
On Fifty-second Street
Uncertain and afraid
As the clever hopes expire
Of a low dishonest decade;
Waves of anger and fear
Circulate over the bright
And darkened lands of the earth,
Obsessing our private lives;
The unmentionable odour of death
Offends the September night

. . .

Defenceless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.

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