IX In Patmos
by Lawrence Durrell
'Art adorns'. Thus Galbo.
Proconsuls should be taught to leave art alone,
Before we came the men of the east
Knew it contained a capital metaphysic,
As chess once founded in astronomy
Degenerated into the game we know.
For the Western man of this Egopetal Age
Cant, rules, pains and prohibitions,
Each with its violent repulsive force.
Only in this still round, touching hands,
To live and lapse and die created,
As Socrates died penniless to leave a fortune.
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