Art

When you are come by ways emptied of light

You'll say goodby, in that indifferent gloom,

To the quick draughts of old, yet with polite

Anguish of pride recall as an heirloom

A dawn when stars dropped gold about your head

And, so amazed, you knew not were you dead.

For, brother, know that this is art, and you

With a cold incautious sorrow stricken dumb,

Have your own vanishing slit of light let through,

Passionate as winter, where only a few may come:

Not idiots in the street find out the lees

In the last drink of dying Socrates.