All these maneuverings to avoid <br />The touching of hands, <br />These shifts to keep the eyes employed <br />On objects more or less neutral <br />(As honor, for time being, commands) <br />Will hardly prevent their downfall. <br /> <br />Stronger medicines are needed. <br />Already they find <br />None of their strategems have succeeded, <br />Nor would have, no, <br />Not had their eyes been stricken blind, <br />Hands cut off at the elbow.<br /><br />Donald Justice<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/love-s-stratagems/
