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Veritas

Дориан Лемэль
You'll find no truth in people.
They praise their daily irons,
When gems of freedom brittle
Are trampled by the tyrants.

You'll find no truth in battle,
No greatness in denial,
Your glory and your mettle
Are shadows on sundial.

You'll find no truth "in vino",
Nor even absolution,
Its essence and its meaning
Is poisonous illusion.

You'll find no truth in scriptures,
Just boring old ideas.
No god will judge your virtues
On your "supremus dies".*

At first it can astound,
It might feel so unfair...
The truth cannot be found -
In here or out there.

01.05.09

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*(lat.) supremus dies - day of death.


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this is an ancient story
that remains quite a bit uncouth:
one finds no truth in glory
since glory resides in truth

Clittary Hilton   19.02.2010 06:32     Заявить о нарушении правил
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Perhaps... :-) But "glory" sounds like something that is long gone and nearly forgotten.

Like Jack Sparrow said, "the world's still the same, it's just less in it." And I don't think anything else could have expressed my feelings better. Can it be that even the human mind has become obsolete? Inertia. That's how it's called. No more great discoveries to make. No more uncharted, unspoiled lands. Nowhere to run...

But forgive me for my ravings. :-) And thank you!

Дориан Лемэль   26.02.2010 18:51   Заявить о нарушении правил
from the Royal Songster:

Young Henry was as brave a youth,
As ever grac'd a martial story
And Jane was fair as lovely truth,
She sigh'd for love and he for glory.

With her his faith he meant to plight,
And told her many a gallant story,
Till war their honest joys to blight,
Call'd him away from love to glory.

Brave Henry met the foe with pride,
Jane follow'd - fought - ah! hapless story,
In man's attire by Henry's side,
She died for love and he for glory.

Clittary Hilton   26.02.2010 21:42   Заявить о нарушении правил
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