We being so hidden from those who
Have quietly borne and fed us,
How can we answer civilly
Their innocent invitations?

How can we say “we see you
As but-for-God’s-grace-ourselves, as
Our caricatures (we yours), with
Time’s telescope between us”?

How can we say “you presumed on
The accident of kinship,
Assumed our friendship coatlike,
Not as a badge one fights for”?

How say “and you remembered
The sins of our outlived selves and
Your own forgiveness, buried
The hatchet to slow music;

Shared money but not your secrets;
Will leave as your final legacy
A box double-locked by the spider
Packed with your unsolved problems”?

How say all this without capitals,
Italics, anger or pathos,
To those who have seen from the womb come
Enemies? How not say it?

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External links

Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus

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Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh

Poems in English 

• Il Penseroso poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
• Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
• How Soon Hath Time poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
• From ‘Samson Agonistes’ i poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
• From ‘Arcades’ poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
• Comus poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
• At A Vacation Exercise In The Colledge, Part Latin, Part English. The Latin Speeches Ended, The English Thus Began poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
• At A Solemn Musick poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
• Arcades poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
• Another On The Same poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
• An Epitaph On The Marchioness Of Winchester poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
• An Epitaph on the Admirable Dramatic Poet W. Shakespeare poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
• Winter Seascape poem – John Betjeman poems by John Betjeman
• Winter Landscape poem – John Betjeman poems by John Betjeman
• Westgate-On-Sea poem – John Betjeman poems by John Betjeman
• Verses Turned… poem – John Betjeman poems by John Betjeman
• Upper Lambourne poem – John Betjeman poems by John Betjeman
• Trebetherick poem – John Betjeman poems by John Betjeman
• The Plantster’s Vision poem – John Betjeman poems by John Betjeman
• The Olympic Girl poem – John Betjeman poems by John Betjeman

More external links (open in a new tab):

Russian Commerce Agency

Dealing Monster

Doska or the Board – write anything

Search engines:

Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)

Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.

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Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.

Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.

 

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