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- Musée des Beaux Arts
- by W. H. Auden
- About suffering they were never wrong,
- The Old Masters: how well they understood
- Its human position: how it takes place
- While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along;
- How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting
- For the miraculous birth, there always must be
- Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating
- On a pond at the edge of the wood:
- They never forgot
- That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course
- Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot
- Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse
- Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.
- In Brueghel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
- Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may
- Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,
- But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone
- As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green
- Water, and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen
- Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,
- Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.
- Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
- by William Carlos Williams
- According to Brueghel
- when Icarus fell
- it was spring
- a farmer was ploughing
- his field
- the whole pageantry
- of the year was
- awake tingling
- near
- the edge of the sea
- concerned
- with itself
- sweating in the sun
- that melted
- the wings' wax
- unsignificantly
- off the coast
- there was
- a splash quite unnoticed
- this was
- Icarus drowning
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