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August 1st 2008 06:40
Couplets on Wit
by Alexander Pope
by Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
I
But our Great Turks in wit must reign alone
And ill can bear a Brother on the Throne.
II
Wit is like faith by such warm Fools profest
Who to be saved by one, must damn the rest.
III
Some who grow dull religious strait commence
And gain in morals what they lose in sence.
IV
Wits starve as useless to a Common weal
While Fools have places purely for their Zea.
V
Now wits gain praise by copying other wits
As one Hog lives on what another sh---.
VI
Wou'd you your writings to some Palates fit
Purged all you verses from the sin of wit
For authors now are so conceited grown
They praise no works but what are like their own.
Thoughts in Poem by Dexter
The starter’s gun fires, the synapses explode,
A 200 metre dash of obtuse processing in an acerbic mind.
A speedy digestion of ideas,
Assimilated into a humorous observation,
Flexing, stretching and stressing the muscles of the brain,
Abstractions rendered clear,
Responses laced with truth,
The thoughts of a unique experience.
Freedom of speech, unhindered by conscious restraint,
Immediate and defined conclusions,
To put new angles on a straight line,
Challenging linear thinking, established beliefs quashed.
The blessed possess the open mind for wisdom,
This is the wit gift.
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