Saturday, August 06, 2011

The People of Victoria (Parody of Gibran)

The Moving Finger writes; and having writ,
Moves on ...


So spoke Fitzgerald's Persian bard,
And the people of Victoria heard him and sighed,
And thought unto themselves “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity,”
And turned again to contemplate, now sad, their ­railway timetables.

Alan Jacobs, First Things, November 2007