Great crane o'ertopping the delicate trees <br />Why do you seem so fair, <br />Swaying and raising your load with ease <br />High in the misty air? <br />You are a wonder of pearl and grey <br />Lifting strong arms to the sky. <br />Have you a meaning that's lovely, pray? <br />Why are you lovely, why? <br />I have a friend with a theory strange, <br />Thriftless in unity, <br />None of my reasons avails to change. <br />'Beauty is truth,' says she. <br />Are you all ugliness, Fair-to-the-sense? <br />You are a symbol drear. <br />Though I should forfeit mine innocence, <br />Yet must I hold you dear.<br /><br />Lesbia Harford<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-sophistical-argument/
