Ἀνεμώλια

GO, foolish thoughts, and join the throng Of myriads gone before; To flutter and flap and flit along The airy limbo shore.

Go, words of sport and words of wit, Sarcastic point and fine, And words of wisdom, wholly fit With folly’s to combine.

Go, words of wisdom, words of sense, Which, while the heart belied, The tongue still uttered for pretence, The inner blank to hide.

Go, words of wit, so gay, so light, That still were meant express To soothe the smart of fancied slight By fancies of success.

Go, broodings vain o’er fancied wrong; Go, love-dreams vainer still; And scorn that’s not, but would be, strong; And Pride without a Will.

Go, foolish thoughts, and find your way Where myriads went before, To languish out your lingering day Upon the limbo shore.