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And a poet said, “Speak to us of Beauty”
All these things have you said of beauty,
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B E L L A
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KG
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- But the restless say, “We have heard her shouting among the mountains,
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- In winter say the snow-bound, “She shall come with the spring leaping upon the hills.”
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- The tired and the weary say, “beauty is of soft whisperings. She speaks in our spirit.
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- And the passionate say, “Nay, beauty is a thing of might and dread.
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- The aggrieved and the injured say, “Beauty is kind and gentle.
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- And in the summer heat the reapers say, “We have seen her dancing with the autumn leaves, and we saw a drift of snow in her hair.”
Broken Wings
Khalil Gibran
“Modern civilization has made woman a little wiser, but it has increased her suffering because of man’s covetousness. The woman of yesterday was a happy wife, but the woman of today is a miserable mistress. In the past she walked blindly in the light, but now she walks open-eyed in the dark. She was beautiful in her ignorance, virtuous in her simplicity, and strong in her weakness. Today she has become ugly in her ingenuity, superficial and heartless in her knowledge. Will the day ever come when beauty and knowledge, ingenuity and virtue, and weakness of body and strength of spirit will be united in a woman?”
Écrire,ns. 