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Don Juan, Canto the Fourteenth
Jun. 7th, 2006 01:13 amIf from great nature's or our own abyss
Of thought we could but snatch a certainty,
Perhaps mankind might find the path they miss --
But then 't would spoil much good philosophy.
One system eats another up, and this
Much as old Saturn ate his progeny;
For when his pious consort gave him stones
In lieu of sons, of these he made no bones.
II
( But System doth reverse the Titan's breakfast, And eats her parents, albeit the digestion Is difficult. )
And I'm off for two weeks. Shall check in from the road, but Juan will probably have to hold his, err, horses until my return.
Of thought we could but snatch a certainty,
Perhaps mankind might find the path they miss --
But then 't would spoil much good philosophy.
One system eats another up, and this
Much as old Saturn ate his progeny;
For when his pious consort gave him stones
In lieu of sons, of these he made no bones.
II
( But System doth reverse the Titan's breakfast, And eats her parents, albeit the digestion Is difficult. )
And I'm off for two weeks. Shall check in from the road, but Juan will probably have to hold his, err, horses until my return.
