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FUTILITY, by                    
First Line: Since beauty, love and truth are said to be
Last Line: Where beauty, tragic figure, walks alone!
Subject(s): Despair; Poetry & Poets


Since beauty, love and truth are said to be
In each man's life the great triumvirate
Should he who would aspire to create
Blend these attributes in his poetry?
Then stand aloof and feel with certainty
That he had reached, in words, the ultimate
And proved the theory inviolate
With such a smug and terse epitome?

As sudden lighting leaves the landscape bare
One glance you gave revealed your soul to me . . .
Beauty remains but love and truth have flown
And in their stead is left a bleak despair --
A yawning chasm of futility
Where beauty, tragic figure, walks alone!





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