BEAUTY
The name of the game is beauty,
and it’s played in honor of John Keats,
whose brief life was dedicated to this
principle; and yet he lives, as Shelley
prophesied, an echo and light unto eternity.
It seems that those who best perceive it,
Li Po, Tu Fu, Shelley, and Dickinson too,
best pass it on, not to the past, but to the ages.
Beauty is a balm that eases the way
of all who tread the centuries’ paths.
May 8, 2003
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