The Fen and Kingdom

Esthetic arts and ample wisdom Upon a sullied fen and a gemmed kingdom Sullied fen, how filthy you are! Beauty has fled and is now afar We seek wisdom, it is to be found Not among what your grime surrounds They left the fen, how selfish within Here, the shallowness of mankind begins If only they’ve seen the glamour it holds Wisdom within, wisdom to unfold… Wealth and gold, marvels of life! Upon the kingdom’s crown were rife It lay somewhere among the attire Yet it was neither wisdom nor satire O kingdom it was wisdom you claimed! One your prosperity and wealth have tamed Beguiled they were by the gilded reign They now believed it was wisdom’s terrain They have failed to see, How shallow is sight? Beauty has just demolished insight… “Insight is beauty… Beauty is not insight”