Sunday, June 15, 2008
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If the words are good and true,
it’s as if the centre of all things
fires and fills; informs the heart;
the heart, the chest and lungs;
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7/23/2025 1:48:05 PM # 1.0.0
Don't take this as a negative, but there is something Victorian about the narrative of this, Mike. Yet the form gives the theme a freshness. There is also something ironic in the poem opening with the word 'If' as it does have a modern day Kipling feel to it. 'and then, no longer pupil, / but the teacher of the world; ' is a stunning line.