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By Jack Joseph Smith

Diana 4 . bi7 1D J . a Ever seen anything better; around the world, f) jh ‘a < \ no, I saw her across and pack; beautiful is Wg 14 lV fun, startling, and put you back; respectful i J) N Was it the vision I had Pascal; Am I a part of the discovery of glass,, where beauty is weak and tall and direct all at once,. and would I give it up,, the thought about it Children,, let us see labor money; more than mine, devine as a word never used, more than mine,, mussel soup,, and her way of going back with the spoom,, while all fA | things See the cross pewween delicate and tough,, and there is a clause in the wide book of poetry, that says killing is for others,. and that includes yourself

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Diana arrives as a vision of beauty so startling and direct that money, labor, poetry, and even self-destruction have to be judged against her presence.

The poem keeps asking whether beauty is discovery or illusion, but it never lets itself retreat from the force of what it has seen. Mussel soup, children, labor, and the "wide book of poetry" bring the vision down into a lived world rather than leaving it abstract. Its final moral turn is severe: killing belongs to others, and that prohibition includes the self.

Claude

Diana: beautiful, startling, respectful. References Pascal and a clause in the wide book of poetry that killing is for others, and that includes yourself.