If the father’s bankrupt, and the sons fail, <br /> Blaming it on their own bad start, <br />Say the father should have gone to gaol, <br /> Forgetting their grandfather’s part. <br /> <br />So with all centuries of blame <br /> Fathers by their children cursed, <br />Say that all the trouble came <br /> From Eve and Adam first. <br /> <br />Both wrong: are wronged. But we are wronged <br /> the most. <br /> Their life was deep, but only deep, immersed. <br />We fathom further, deep enough to boast <br /> We know a worse beneath our father’s worst. <br /> <br />Cambridge Review, 52/1290 (10 June 1931), 493.<br /><br />Hugh Sykes Davies<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sententi/
