StandardsAuthor(s): Harold CookSource: Poetry, Vol. 21, No. 3 (Dec., 1922), p. 132Published by: Poetry FoundationStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20573857 .

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POETRY: -i Magazine of Verse

TWO POEMS

STANDARDS

All things that are beautiful Fragile, mute and sensual,

Must be broken ere they be Clad in immortality.

Slanting sunlight on the grass Vanishes while clouds pass.

Like bright mirrors, lakes at rest Shatter on a swan's breast.

Quiet water and the sun Only then are known to one,

Only then, when lost, they find Their actuality in mind.

So, like sunlight, love must go That love's perfection we may know.

One must die, and then the other Of the two, the loved and lover.

Freed of separate bodies, they Are born as one in their new day.

Symbol then of love they rise Starry, lovely, to our eyes.

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