Something to Think About...

Whilst walking to my ILLS seminar the other week, I noticed the following verse spray-painted onto the wall of a house in a graffiti-style manner:

"The morning wind began to moan,

But still the night went on:

Through its giant loom the web of gloom

Crept till each thread was spun:

And, as we prayed, we grew afraid

Of the Justice of the Sun."

Having deduced that this was more likely to be a quote than a graffiti-artist's musings, I googled the last line and found that it is a verse from Oscar Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol. I guess I just found it thought-provoking; how sometimes we like to pull a veil over our eyes and convince ourselves that we're doing the right thing, when really, when we see things in their true light it's not something we like to admit. Or how we busy ourselves with

preoccupations which, in the grand scheme of things are meaningless.

I suppose to discover what Wilde's true meaning was you would have to look at the verse in context of the whole poem. But singled out, I think it's pretty effective in itself.

I guess you can take from this whatever you like. I just thought it's definitely worth thinking about, especially when applied to our world today.