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PENANCES by JOHN DRINKWATER

Poet Analysis

First Line: THESE ARE MY HAPPY PENANCES. TO MAKE
Last Line: IN BEAUTY'S COURTS THE UNAPPEASABLE MIND.
Subject(s): REASON; INTELLECT; RATIONALISM; BRAIN; MIND; INTELLECTUALS;
THESE are my happy penances. To make
Beauty without a covenant; to take
Measure of time only because I know
That in death's market-place I still shall owe
Service to beauty that shall not be done;
To know that beauty's doctrine is begun
And makes a close in sacrifice; to find
In beauty's courts the unappeasable mind.



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