A Dialogue between the Soul & the Body: III
by Andrew Marvell *
the SOUL, mired in matter, gives rebuttal:
What magic could me thus confine
Within another’s grief to pine?
Where whatsoever it complain,
I feel, that cannot feel, the pain;
And all my care itself employs;
That to preserve which me destroys;
Constrain’d not only to endure
Diseases, but, what’s worse, the cure;
And ready oft the port to gain,
Am shipwreck’d into health again.
recapitulation by the BODY: