11/19/2017

Icarus By Pieter Brueghel

In Breughel'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. 
- WH Auden.

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