Poetry Obscure

“to those who would appreciate poetry, and unwind its difficult involutions. You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark. For we are forbidden by divine command to give that which is holy to dogs, or to cast pearls before swine.””– Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375)

Cavalier shrewdness not blind but unseeing

Of many Miss Understandings called forth

And what is acquired in trial and is kept

In care is ever the dearer to us

I will not rip up the veil and lay bare

The meaning which lies hidden deep in design.

I will shade them now from irreverent eye

That scorches by common and cheapening gaze.