Lacking Almost All Common Sense when Combined…and After that Too Late
“Where the white cliffs were ghostlike in the dawn,
And after dawn were deathlike.” ~Lancelot, Edwin Arlington Robinson
If only Arthur and poor Paul had read
Those words by Robinson, they might have had
The sense to stay away and keep their bed
Some other place than London. Just how bad
Their lives would be thereafter, London, there
In Camden and Belgravia, and on
And on thereafter, probably then their
Good sense would have protected from that dawn
Of evil everywhere they went and died.
But sense was never what they had, not Paul,
Pathetic Paul, completely lacking pride,
Or Arthur who had chosen to appall
Everyone everywhere from Paris on
And on, ignoring Dover’s warning dawn.