The Foreword to the new book “The Wisdom of Our Ancestors: Conservative Humanism and the Western Tradition.”
Les étoiles du coeur
December 5, 2019
This poem appears in the Winter 2018 issue of Modern Age. To subscribe now, go here.
Night woke our father:
Off we went to it,
Wandering silvered streets and lawns
To find Orion’s belt
Or magic Dippers
Pouring out heaven’s gold and silver
Forever.
He shied away from all astronomy:
Let no one furl the sails of wonder;
He traced the stars our hearts already saw:
The giant Archer drew his bow
To guard our little house on Sidney Street.
Our father would be giving us the stars
Forever.
Robert Beum taught history at a variety of Canadian colleges and universities for several decades. His essays have appeared in numerous scholarly journals.
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