Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, DIALOGUE BEFORE SUNRISE, by JULES LAFORGUE


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DIALOGUE BEFORE SUNRISE, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'd like to live; but truly
Last Line: Go ajourneying with the moon.
Subject(s): Conversation; Dawn; Language; Sunrise; Words; Vocabulary


—I'd like to live; but truly
The Ideal is too loose.

—Besides being unruly,
The word makes you a goose.

—All may be disputed;
Books to books death-giving!

—Absolutes are confuted
Where the truth consists in living.

—And if I lower my banner
And to the Void succumb?

—The Infinite, in grand manner,
Will suggest: "Oh, don't be dumb!"

—The tackles of the Possible whinny
At the Inconceivable, though!

—One degree, and there are so many
From dawn to twilight-glow.

—Is being actual, at least,
Being fit to do something?

—It follows, till the rose has ceased
Growing flowers for fragrance, thorns for sting.

—Your unusual way of letting me gather
The vicious circle in which all is hewn?

—Vicious, everything!
—Thanks; I'd rather
Go ajourneying with the moon.





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