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Law Like Love

Law, say the gardeners, is the sun,

Law is the

All gardeners

To-morrow, yesterday, to-day.

Law is the wisdom of the old,

The impotent grandfathers feebly scold;

The grandchildren put out a treble tongue,

Law is the senses of the young.

Law, says the priest with a priestly look,

Expounding to an unpriestly people,

Law is the words in my priestly book,

Law is my pulpit and my steeple.

Law, says the judge as he looks down his nose,

Speaking clearly and most severely,

Law is as I've told you before,

Law is as you know I suppose,

Law is but let me explain it once more,

Law is The Law.

Yet law-abiding scholars write:

Law is neither wrong nor right,

Law is only

Punished by places and by times,

Law is the clothes men

Anytime, anywhere,

Law is Good morning and Good night.

Others say,

Law is our Fate;

Others say,

Law is our State;

Others say, others

Law is no more,

Law has gone away.

And always the loud angry crowd,

Very angry and very loud,

Law is We,

And always the soft idiot softly Me.

If we, dear, know we know no

Than they about the Law,

If I no more than

Know what we should and should not

Except that all

Gladly or

That the Law

And that all know

If therefore thinking it

To identify Law with some other word,

Unlike so many menI cannot say Law is again,

No more than they can we

The universal wish to

Or slip out of our own

Into an unconcerned condition.

Although I can at least

Your vanity and

To stating timidlyA timid similarity,

We shall boast anyway:

Like love I say.

Like love we don't know where or why,

Like love we can't compel or fly,

Like love we often weep,

Like love we seldom keep.

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W H Auden

Wystan Hugh Auden (21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973) was an Anglo-American poet. Auden's poetry was noted for its stylistic and technical ac…

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