Ah! Yet Consider It Again!

by Arthur Hugh Clough — a poem card from Justes Mots

Clough urges readers to reconsider received wisdom—neither blindly accepting old truths nor embracing new ones without reflection. The poem questions whether limited human perception can truly comprehend the vast accumulation of human experience and knowledge. It addresses the philosophical challenge of maintaining intellectual humility in a world that rushes forward without pause for critical examination.

�Old things need not be therefore true,�
O brother men, nor yet the new;
Ah! still awhile the old thought retain,
And yet consider it again!

The souls of now two thousand years,
Have laid up here their toils and fears,
And all the earnings of their pain,…

Themes: encouragement · graduation · new-chapter · recovery