http://lamia.vox.com/library/posts/page/1/ en Vox Tue, 05 Dec 2006 17:27:39 +0700 Copyright 2006 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://lamia.vox.com/library/post/the-more-loving-one.html?_c=feed-rss-full nobody@vox.com(Lamia) http://lamia.vox.com/library/post/the-more-loving-one.html?_c=feed-rss-full http://lamia.vox.com/library/post/the-more-loving-one.html?_c=feed-rss-full Tue, 05 Dec 2006 17:27:39 +0700 <pre>Looking up at the stars, I know quite well <br />That, for all they care, I can go to hell, <br />But on earth indifference is the least <br />We have to dread from man or beast. <br /> <br />How should we like it were stars to burn <br />With a passion for us we could not return? <br />If equal affection cannot be, <br />Let the more loving one be me. <br /> <br />Admirer as I think I am <br />Of stars that do not give a damn, <br />I cannot, now I see them, say <br />I missed one terribly all day. <br /> <br />Were all stars to disappear or die, <br />I should learn to look at an empty sky <br />And feel its total dark sublime, <br />Though this might take me a little time.</pre> <p>&#160;</p> <p><span style="font-family: courier new">W.H. Auden</span><a href="http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/index_poet_A.html#Auden"></a></p> <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://lamia.vox.com/library/post/the-more-loving-one.html?_c=feed-rss-full#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2251f0300604a00cd978cea3af9cc?_c=feed-rss-full">Send to a friend</a> </p>