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Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth Arthur Hugh Clough, — Say not the struggle naught availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor faileth, And as things have been they remain. Click to share on Facebook Opens in new window Click to email this to a friend Opens in new window Click to share on Twitter Opens in new window. About Poetic Beauty Passionate lover of beauty in all its forms, from the universal to the infinitesimal, with a desire to touch the hearts of all I encounter and share the beauty of life with others My art: October 23, at 5: October 25, at October 25, at 5: Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: Email required Address never made public.
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- The Tower of Endless Worlds.
- Not bad going, to do one imperishable thing in life.
It is, in my view, an excellent poetic tract for the times. It is so easy to surrender to despair if we take in all the portents of disaster, hammered into our brains by the relentless thuds of TV and tabloids, internet and media celebs. All the evidence suggests that we are losing the culture wars. Universities are a wasteland. Schools are crack deserts. All this is true, or half-true or quarter-true.
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I think there is much vigorous and creative life in our universities — that is certainly my impression when I visit them — and top-form schoolchildren I meet are strikingly well informed. I think the Islamic inflatus is on the verge of an implosion, which will transform those countries now racked by the fundamentalist fever into harmless members of the world community.
But of course by then other pseudo-perils will be keeping us awake at night. A splendid achievement to have under your posterity-belt. Clough was a preternaturally silent man. When he had nothing significant to say, he was dumb. Given a choice between harmless small talk and nothing, he always chose not to utter a word.
At dinner, he said nothing.
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