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FUTILITY - ZaunköniG - 09.08.2014
FUTILITY
WHEREFORE this arduous and unyielding strife
To garner love and cling to happiness
Against the use of nature ? In what life
Moves a glad pulse unwitting of distress ?
Is honesty a bar to crime's offence ?
Doth truth prevail like treacherous deceits ?
Can the soul curb the ever eager sense
That lures the body to unholy feats ?
Will innocence disarm conspiracy ?
Or weakness move compassion in the strong,
When the last breath escapes, and the last sigh
Fails on the lips ? All seems compact of wrong ;
Yet our brave souls endure, nor cease to hope
Though slipping down the inevitable slope.