W. H. Auden<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
About suffering they were never wrong,
\nThe old Masters: how well they understood
\nIts human position: how it takes place
\nWhile someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along;
\nHow, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting
\nFor the miraculous birth, there always must be
\nChildren who did not specially want it to happen, skating
\nOn a pond at the edge of the wood:
\nThey never forgot
\nThat even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course
\nAnyhow in a corner, some untidy spot
\nWhere the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer’s horse
\nScratches its innocent behind on a tree.
\nIn Breughel’s Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
\nQuite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may
\nHave heard the splash, the forsaken cry,
\nBut for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone
\nAs it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green
\nWater, and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen
\nSomething amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,
\nHad somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.<\/p>\n
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– factum est.<\/b><\/p>\n
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