MEMETERIA by Thomas May

Music & the Arts

Lacrimae Rerum

veiled

Yet however much we may like
The stoic manner in which
The classical authors wrote,
Only the young and the rich
Have the nerve or the figure to strike
The lacrimae rerum note.

–from A Walk After Dark, W.H. Auden

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