HOW SHORT FELL THOSE WHO REACHED FAR FROM GREAT HEIGHTS

H. G. Wells(1866-1946)

A one man ideology

seeking the support of the masses

is set to fail as a factual project;

but in the bookshelves

it can reach immortality of sorts.

We should take off the

hats of our ancestors

before his marble-head

and thank him for

being dictator-in-books

(only).

After the Blizz, the V-1s and

the V-2s, at the time of the ruined peace,

gazing back, gazing forth -

a twilight, a dying light

he had refused to see. The

whispering dark comes

with the steps of the burned ghosts,

silently on broken brick,

to ask him for a walk.

D. H. Lawrence(1885-1930)

A feverish mind can tower

over his age, even if

his sickness will overcome

him and his words none.

That he is a Tower of Pisa

should not lower

our estimation (much).

Under the cold sun of Provence,

when the year is new,

and death is near,

the bloody lungs, the bloody

lungs, have the Will

and the mind is a frail reed

breaking. Die!