Sonnet 375

Being born of a worldly age I bow

To all the teachings history may now show,

For oft when choosing action for the hour

A lucid past may wisdom there bestow.

What has been done before oft shows the way

Wherein effect and cause play out their part,

So distillations of steeped time may sway

Resolutions the tried and true impart.

Thus may we learn from pondering prior faults

And glean from them as much as triumphs past;

To shutter knowledge such in ancient vaults

Is to be blind at how life’s die are cast;

For what’s to be oft rests on what’s transpired;

In tested acts lie wit and worth conspired.

Loubert S Suddaby poems