Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ROUND TABLE, by FAITH EVELYN PACKARD


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ROUND TABLE, by                    
First Line: A dull, ill-acted comedy is life!
Last Line: To work and live, to trust in god and die.
Subject(s): Comedy; God; Life; Plays & Playwrights; Tragedy


"A dull, ill-acted comedy is life!"
Abe Cowley laughs, nigh splits himself in two.
"A too well-acted tragedy!" Donne sighs.
"A pretty farce!" smiles Lady Montagu.
"Just rise above it!" Epicurus cries,
"Enjoy yourself, don't let it worry you!"
But Zeno, holding Conscience his true wife,
Warns, "Curb your passions and yourself subdue!"
"I fear this life is naught!" the skeptic's dirge
From dust to dust reverberates no clue.
"Try humanism," intellectuals urge,
"It's sensible, it's balancing, it's new!"

And so they talk, while crowds of men pass by
To work and live, to trust in God and die.





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