At The Millennium
WHENEVER men and women learn
To be themselves from day to day,
To spend no more than what they earn,
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This poet was reviled in earlier times in favor of iconoclasts like Stevens, etc.; I begin to appreciate his wisdom. more; views of poetry change with time, no less than of anything. Actually, it's quite well-made, which, after all, is what the word 'poet' means in Greek..
(cont) ....if a little pious. MM