Housman had a point. If men could be drunk for ever, the human condition would be tolerable. But thought always forces its way on to the agenda. ‘And when men think, they fasten/ Their hands upon their hearts.’ This occurred to me in the context of Lebanon. That is a country designed to be a paradise where the nymphs dance to Pan’s pipes.
Bruce Anderson
Even great wine can’t quite give me hope for Lebanon
This should be an earthly paradise. It hasn’t quite worked out that way
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