In vain

[Glasbleistift]

In vain created Michelangelo
each mighty marble masterpiece,
to no avail let Rimsky-Korsakov
fly out his bouncing bumblebees,
for nothing wrote a man in England once
his ode upon an urn in Greece
and all for naught lost old Methuselah
his sons, his sight and all his teeth.

All music, poetry and art insane,
all beauty, blood and faith in vain,
if we not open heart and mind again.

[movfaltin]

Hi glasbleistift,

a waste of time it wasn't reading every line
albeit your syntax struck me odd at least
who cares, each single writer'd have his feast
were criticism always as benign.

Well, what I intended to say by that is: It sounds a bit Shakespearean to me. Except for the last line, which only sounds wrong. Overall, however, it is a joy to read.

And: "for nothing" means: he did not earn money from that (I am not sure whether I would reckon it applied in a correct fashion here or not).

Anyway, cheers,
Mov