Identify this quote!

brokly | 18:06 Tue 28th Dec 2004 | Arts & Literature

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Does anyone recognize the lines "There are no loves - only the various envies, and all of them sad"? I remember someone telling me a long time ago they were from something by Auden, but I've never found it.

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betty-nugs

It is WH Auden and it's called "In praise of the limestone"

http://www.revistaqi.com/cavea61.htm

The lines you quote are at the end of verse three.

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Thanks, Betty-Nugs, very prompt too, I'm impressed!

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