"Live Oak, with Moss" Manuscripts


Leaf 16

XII
To the young man, many things to absorb, to
          engraft, to develop, I teach, that he be
          my eleve, 
But if through him speed rolls not the red 
          blood of divine friendship, hot and
          red�If he be not silently selected by
          lovers, and do not silently select
          lovers�of what use were it for him to
          seek to become eleve of mine?
Return to previous leaf
Return to Manuscript Index