<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=413615" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Boundless curiosity for friend Thad.</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The world is full of mysteries.<br> Colossal buildings left behind<br> by earlier societies.<br>Their purposes still ill defined</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Although the archaeologists<br> advance their favourite theories.<br>The mysteries will long persist.<br>Their different hypotheses.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Cannot be proven any way.<br> They’re based on their experience <br>Of living in the world to day.<br>A different frame of reference.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Which cannot possibly apply<br>They saw the world quite differently.<br>I do not think we can deny <br>We’re blinkered in the way we see.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The evidence which we can find, <br>We can’t interpret properly<br>The artefacts they left behind<br>Their uses are a mystery.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Though we attempt to classify<br> we can’t be sure we are correct.<br> These relics from past history <br>aren’t always what we would expect.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Temples and Tombs or Palaces<br>The truth is that we do not know<br>Secular or sacred places.<br>There is no evidence to show.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That we can state with confidence <br>confirms our modern theories.<br>We have no point of reference<br>With which everyone agrees.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The arguments rage to and fro<br>As experts wrangle bitterly<br>They daren’t admit they do not know.<br>Although they don’t quite obviously.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At best an educated guess<br> Must be the best we can expect.<br> From experts trying to impress<br>The other experts I suspect.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It seems to me improbable<br>That we will solve these mysteries<br>Our mind sets aren’t comparable<br> as different as chalk and cheese.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But still we are compelled to try<br> because these monuments exist.<br>Our boundless curiosity<br> will not allow us to desist.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Saturday,24 April 2010<br>http: // blog.myspace.com/poeticpiers</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ivor+Or+Ivor.e+Hogg">Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=413615" data-title="Boundless curiosity for friend Thad. de Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg" data-description="The world is full of mysteries. Colossal buildings left behind by earlier societies. Their purposes still ill defined Although the archaeologists advance their favourite theories. The mysteries will long persist. Their different hypotheses. C..."></div> </div> </div>

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