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How to Be Sage Without Hemlock

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By MFK Fisher

Published 1944

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How often when they find a sage

As sweet as Socrates or Plato

They hand him hemlock for his wage

Or bake him like a sweet potato!

Taking the Longer View, DON MARQUIS

In spite of all the talk and study about our next years, and all the silent ponderings about what lies within them for our sons [Why only sons? Since I wrote this I have acquired two daughters, and they too shape the pattern’s pieces, and the texture of my belief!] it seems plain to us that many things are wrong in the present ones that can be, must be, changed. Our texture of belief has great holes in it. Our pattern lacks pieces.

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