John Donne - Community

Good we must love, and must hate ill, <br />For ill is ill, and good good still ; <br />But there are things indifferent, <br />Which wee may neither hate, nor love, <br />But one, and then another prove, <br />As we shall find our fancy bent. <br /> <br />If then at first wise Nature had <br />Made women either good or bad, <br />Then some wee might hate, and some choose ; <br />But since she did them so create, <br />That we may neither love, nor hate, <br />Only this rests, all all may use. <br /> <br />If they were good it would be seen ; <br />Good is as visible as green, <br />And to all eyes itself betrays. <br />If they were bad, they could not last ; <br />Bad doth itself, and others waste ; <br />So they deserve nor blame, nor praise. <br /> <br />But they are ours as fruits are ours ; <br />He that but tastes, he that devours, <br />And he that leaves all, doth as well ; <br />Changed loves are but changed sorts of meat ; <br />And when he hath the kernel eat, <br />Who doth not fling away the shell?<br /><br />John Donne<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/community-2/