The Fallen Signpost... Robert Graves...
The sign post of four arms is down,
But one names your departure-towm:
With this for guide you may replant
Your post and choose which road you want-
Logic that only seem obscure
To those deliberately not sure
Whether a journey should begin
With cross-roads or with origin.
The square post, and socket square-
No which way round to set it there?
Thus from the problem coaxing out
Four further elements of doubt,
They make the simple cross-roads be
A crux of pure dubiety
Demanding how much more concern
Than to have taken the wrong turn!

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