Transcription

Blessed is the Man
Who Does not sit in the seat of the scoffer--
12 or 13 lines

All(?) Ulysses' companions are now political
living self-indulgently until the moral sense is drowned,
having lost all power of comparison,
thinking license emancipates one, "slaves when they themselves
                                                                        have bound,"
Brazen authors, downright soiled and
                        downright spoiled as if soured

and exceptional, are the old quasi-modish counterfeit
proofing conscience against character
affronted by private lies and public shamed.  Blessed
                                in the grottos
who favor what is superilious do not favor--
who will not comply. Blessed, the unaccomodating man
Blessed the man whose faith is indifferent
from possessiveness--of a kind not favored by
                            things which do not appear
who will not visualize defeat to intent to cover:
whose illumined eye has seen the shaft that
        gill (?) the sultan's tower.

transcribed at Dr. Piskor's request
entire piece should have been
            12 or 13 lines
            shorter!

Marianne Moore

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