Experience vs. Wisdom: 28 May 2022

What do you know with people, and what do you know by study and thinking, and what do you know at all, you know-it-all?

Remember in school compare-and-contrast exercises? Let’s try one today, because our kind and well-read curators have given us two pieces together, both by different authors, one song lyrics and one a tale.

The first, “Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Charms,” are new lyrics by Thomas Moore (last seen here) to an Irish air (song) originally titled (dark…