Thomas Bailey Aldrich

1836-1907

 

Problem

by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

So closely knit are mind and brain,
Such web and woof are soul and clay,
How is it, being rent in twain,
One part shall live, and one decay?

Source:

Unguarded Gates: And Other Poems
Copyright 1895
Houghton, Mifflin And Company,Boston And New York