A shilling life will give you all the facts: <br />How Father beat him, how he ran away, <br />What were the struggles of his youth, what acts <br />Made him the greatest figure of his day; <br />Of how he fought, fished, hunted, worked all night, <br />Though giddy, climbed new mountains; named a sea; <br />Some of the last researchers even write <br />Love made him weep his pints like you and me. <br /> <br />With all his honours on, he sighed for one <br />Who, say astonished critics, lived at home; <br />Did little jobs about the house with skill <br />And nothing else; could whistle; would sit still <br />Or potter round the garden; answered some <br />Of his long marvellous letters but kept none.<br /><br />Wystan Hugh Auden<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/who-s-who-3/
