My last defense / Is the present tense.
Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.
Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
We don't ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.
It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.