He is the Truth. / Seek Him in the Kingdom of Anxiety
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Auden on the Time After Christmas III
In the meantime / There are bills to be paid, machines to keep in repair, / Irregular verbs to learn, the Time Being to redeem / From insignificance.
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Auden on the Time After Christmas II
But, for the time being, here we all are, / Back in the moderate Aristotelian city / Of darning and the Eight-Fifteen, where Euclid's geometry / And Newton's mechanics would account for our experience, / And the kitchen table exists because I scrub it.
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Auden on the Time After Christmas I
Once again / As in previous years we have seen the actual Vision and failed / To do more than entertain it as an agreeable / Possibility
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Still He Comes
The other day I heard the line sung "let every heart prepare him room" and it made me grieve. I have not prepared him room very well in my heart as of late. What's more, the season for such things is upon us and I—well, I just flat out haven't done much thinking about the coming of Christ.