ackroyd-at-peace

I was at peace with a world which afforded so much bounty, and began to enjoy living at the very end of time.

“Yes, every poet is a fool:
By demonstration Ned can show it:
Happy, could Ned’s inverted rule
Prove every fool to be a poet.”

Matthew Prior | Epigram after the French of Scévole de Sainte-Marthe