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UNKNOWN QUANTITY by LEONARD BACON (1887-1954)

First Line: A MAN MUST PONDER
Last Line: TO ME UNKNOWN.
Subject(s): BEAUTY; ORION (CONSTELLATION); THOUGHT; TIME; THINKING;
A man must ponder
On Beauty's nature,
Feature, and stature,
What wondrous plunder
She steals from Time;
What is her law,
Dignity, awe,
Reason and rhyme,
That may be Orion
Above a mountain,
Or a tense lion,
Or a strict fountain,
Or a wave overblown.
For I seek only
Beauty lonely,
Lonely, lonely,
To me unknown.



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