ON READING JACQUES BARZUN’S INTRODUCTION
TO GULLIVER’S TRAVELS AND SEVERAL REMOTE PASSAGES NEAR THE END OF THE TEXT ITSELF
I have been a Greater man than I have
ever seen,
sometimes, as my mind and spirit go
Grand,
still in remembrance of sickened sepulchral
times of sin
when I sat sick and only waited for
my time to end.
Now I enlarge, as all the world stretches
out
against my tread and cannot know that
I but tremor and wish
to give as its edge twists with grand
lent hands.
But then I fear my own size and length
spans –
is it lies? It must be for no one knows.
And so are all the world’s Souls lost
as our Greatness only goes.
St-Lambert, circa 1984.
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