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Tuesday, August 09, 2011

Danish

Unborn is to discover, not countries
or travelling puzzles, but our return.
Will dares us. No ills will take us. Rather,
as those naughts we’ll fly — other, knowing all.
Thus consciousness, a coward, is unmade.


Moving on, this time to the Prince of Denmark and his brooding:
The undiscover'd country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns, — puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
[Hamlet: III.i.89-90]

1 comment:

Messalina said...

Cowards don conscience's
mask tight lipped
bearing ills cloaked in fear of hearts bolted steel
The undiscover'd country calls
Fly to the unknown or die