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Love and Knowledge

Their footless dance
Is of the beautiful liability of their nature.
Their eyes are round, boldly convex, bright as a jewel,
And merciless. They do not know
Compassion, and if they did,
We should not be worthy of it. They fly
In air that glitters like fluent crystal
And is hard as perfectly transparent iron, they cleave it
With no effort. They cry
In a tongue multitudinous,often like music.

He slew them, at surprising distances, with his gun.
over a body held in his hands, his head was bowed low
But not in grief.

He put them where they are, and where we see them:
In our imagination.

What is love?

One name for it is knowledge.

 

--- Robert Penn Warren

 

This is one of the poems in the Poetry of the Wild program.


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