Infant Mild and Astyanax, the Son of Hector, Hidden in Hector’s Tomb

Our western world begins its dating with The birth of one warm glowing baby. Glow And gilding in the paintings are like myth. They make truth truer. Little foot and toe On manger straw are our beginning. Sweet. The Greeks began their dating with the sack Of Troy. Included in this bronze defeat Was Andromache’s son thrown down and slack Against the paving under broken walls, His body and his bones there broken by Greek voting, then by Pyrrhus’ hands. These falls, The city’s and the smashed child’s, clarify For us the differences between our thought And Greeks’ views. They liked “is” and we crave “ought.”