The Mind
LVIII. The sage lectured brilliantly
From The Black Riders and Other Lines (1895)
The Mind
The sage lectured brilliantly.
Before him, two images:
"Now this one is a devil,
"And this one is me."
He turned away.
Then a cunning pupil
Changed the positions.
Turned the sage again:
"Now this one is a devil,
"And this one is me."
The pupils sat, all grinning,
And rejoiced in the game.
But the sage was a sage.
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Crane, Stephen. “LVIII. The sage lectured brilliantly.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/crane/57/.
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Crane, Stephen. “LVIII. The sage lectured brilliantly.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/crane/57/.
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