Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
John Harington, Epigrams
Thus language turn we, steer and ply
Propitiating uses,
To weave a thread of senses sly
Past sensible peruses.
Pragmatic is such wield of words
Collating values chastened,
With well-to-do for common hoards
Vouchsafed in virtue hastened.
One’s treason is another’s deed of risk, survival, valor…
Perspective sets plain meaning’s heed, wrought safe with logic’s pallor.
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