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A Game of Chess

"A Game Of Chess“To John Brodieby Gwen Harwood

Nightfall: the town's chromatic nocturne wakesdark brilliance on the river; colours driftand tremble as enormous shadows liftOrion to his place. The heart remarksthat peace torn in the blaze of day. Insideyour room are music, warmth and wine, the boardwith chessmen set for play. The harpsichordbegins a fugue; delight is multiplied.

A game: the heart's impossible ideal--to choose among a host of paths, and knowthat if the kingdom crumbles one can yieldand have the choice again. Abstract and realjoined in their trance of thought, two players showthe calm of gods above a troubled field.

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd; But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

A Game of Chess

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?