<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459827" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Good</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Even before she held you tight to her <br>and murmured softly, isn’t that just good? — </div><div style="margin:10px 0">before you learned to hear, and speak, and spell <br>and comprehend the concept of the Good – </div><div style="margin:10px 0">your soul already hungered for the Good it loves, <br>never to be quenched in its desire; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">as your beloved cat, who in the day <br>manipulates affection, but at night </div><div style="margin:10px 0">becomes a ruthless predator to feed its catness; <br>so your clever, cunning, hungry, godly soul; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">even when your adolescent heart falls flat <br>at beauty’s vision in a human form </div><div style="margin:10px 0">soul whispers (unattended to) : now here’s the truth: <br>that even beauty’s borrowed and must be refreshed.. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">so soul may take a lifetime, till the mind <br>whose aid it seeks to find itself the Good </div><div style="margin:10px 0">arrives; and sighs a lifetime’s sigh; and rests; <br>and soul, which knows no failure, place, or time, <br>shines out to prove it never went away; <br>nor shall, nor can; her elsewhere light, our day. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">* </div><div style="margin:10px 0">[From Plotinus, Ennead VI 7,31,17-31]</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</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=459827" data-title="The Good de Michael Shepherd" data-description="Even before she held you tight to her and murmured softly, isn’t that just good? — before you learned to hear, and speak, and spell and comprehend the concept of the Good – your soul already hungered for the Good it loves, never to be..."></div> </div> </div>

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