2010/10/09
Time that is intolerant
Of the brave and the innocent,
And indifferent in a week
To a beautiful physique,
Worships language and forgives
Everyone by whom it lives;
Pardons cowardice, conceit
Lays its honours at their feet
W. H. AUDEN, U.K.
in "In Memory of W. B. Yeats", 1939
(posted by cyberiticus.blogspot.com)
O tempo que não tolera
Os bravos e os inocentes,
E numa semana se desinteressa
De um físico atraente,
Venera a linguagem e perdoa
A quantos ela segue;
Perdoa a cobardia, e a vaidade
Lança-lhes honras aos pés.
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