Hermione and Her Little Group of Serious Thinkers/Ballade of Understanding
BALLADE OF UNDERSTANDING
- "Does not the World's stupidity
- At times make Serious Thinkers fret?"
- I asked the fair Hermione;
- "Sometimes" she said, "and yet… and yet…
- We feel we owe the World a debt!"
- She waved a slim, bejeweled hand,
- She brooded on some vague regret….
- "I hope," she sighed, "you'll Understand?"
- "Is not your high Philosophy
- Too subtle for the Mob to get?"
- I asked…. She pondered seriously;
- "Sometimes," she said, "and yet… and yet…"
- She trifled with an amulet
- Imported from some Orient land….
- "What fish can burst the Cosmic Net?…
- I hope," she sighed, "you'll Understand."
- "Art, Science and Psychology,
- Causes that rise and shine and set,
- Do all these never weary thee?"—
- "Sometimes," she said, "and yet… and yet…
- Would Thought and Life have ever met
- Unless"… She paused. Her lashes fanned
- Her eyes, with tears of ardor wet….
- "I hope," she sighed, "you'll understand!"
- "Princess, is Bull the One Best Bet?"—
- "Sometimes," she said, "and yet… and yet…"
- She mused, and then; in accents bland,
- "I hope," she said, "you'll Understand!"