Good and Clever

If all the good people were clever,

    And all clever people were good,

The world would be nicer than ever

   We thought that it possibly could,

—Dame Elizabeth Wordsworth  (1931)

The good all thought they were clever;

The clever all thought they were good.

The handcart to Hell—forever—

Sped on, as I knew that it would!

Sunday, April 20, 2025