Martin Robertson

Now and Then

Beauty

Drink (your fill

you never can)

beauty of earth, skill

of visionary man.

Man, who knows

from nature how to kill

and breeds in his own breast,

sows incontinently,

noisomer ill,

yet pursues

beauty, and is blest.

For all our wickedness,

our blank stupidity,

beauty is ours and the earth’s still.