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I	A
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The cloud my bed is tinged with blood and foam	B
The vault yet blazes with the sun	C
Writhing above the West brave hippodrome	B
Whose gladiators shock and shun	C
As the blue night devours them crested comb	B
Of sleep's dead sea	D
That eats the shores of life rings round eternity	D
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II	A
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So he is gone whose giant sword shed flame	E
Into my bowels my blood's bewitched	F
My brain's afloat with ecstasy of shame	E
That tearing pain is gone enriched	F
By his life spasm but he being gone the same	E
Myself is gone	G
Sucked by the dragon down below death's horizon	C
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III	A
I woke from this I lay upon the lawn	G
They had thrown roses on the moss	H
With all their thorns we came there at the dawn	G
My lord and I God sailed across	H
The sky in's galleon of amber drawn	G
By singing winds	I
While we wove garlands of the flowers of our minds	J
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IV	-
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All day my lover deigned to murder me	D
Linking his kisses in a chain	K
About my neck demon embroidery	D
Bruises like far ff mountains stain	K
The valley of my body of ivory	D
Then last came sleep	L
I wake and he is gone what should I do but weep	L
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V	D
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Nay for I wept enough more sacred tears	M
When first he pinned me gripped	N
My flesh and as a stallion that rears	O
Sprang hero thewed and satyr lipped	N
Crushed as a grape between his teeth my fears	O
Sucked out my life	-
And stamped me with the shame the monstrous word of	-
wife	-
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VI	-
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I will not weep nay I will follow him	P
Perchance he is not far	Q
Bathing his limbs in some delicious dim	P
Depth where the evening star	Q
May kiss his mouth or by the black sky's rim	P
He makes his prayer	R
To the great serpent that is coiled in rapture there	R
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VII	-
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I rose to seek him First my footsteps faint	S
Pressed the starred moss but soon	T
I wandered like some sweet sequestered saint	S
Into the wood my mind The moon	T
Was staggered by the trees with fierce constraint	S
Hardly one ray	U
Pierced to the ragged earth about their roots that lay	U
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VIII	-
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I wandered crying on my Lord I wandered	V
Eagerly seeking everywhere	R
The stories of life that on my lips he squandered	V
Grew into shrill cries of despair	R
Until the dryads frightened and dumfoundered	V
Fled into space	W
Like to a demon king's was grown my maiden face	W
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XI	D
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At last I came unto the well my soul	X
In that still glass I saw no sign	Y
Of him and yet what visions there uproll	X
To cloud that mirror soul of mine	Y
Above my head there screams a flying scroll	X
Whose word burnt through	Z
My being as when stars drop in black disastrous dew	Z
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X	-
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For in that scroll was written how the globe	A2
Of space became of how the light	V
Broke in that space and wrapped it in a robe	A2
Of glory of how One most white	V
Withdrew that Whole and hid it in the lobe	A2
Of his right Ear	B2
So that the Universe one dewdrop did appear	C2
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IX	-
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Yea and the end revealed a word a spell	X
An incantation a device	-
Whereby the Eye of the Most Terrible	X
Wakes from its wilderness of ice	-
To flame whereby the very core of hell	X
Bursts from its rind	V
Sweeping the world away into the blank of mind	V
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XII	-
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So then I saw my fault I plunged within	D2
The well and brake the images	-
That I had made as I must make Men spin	D2
The webs that snare them while the knee	D
Bend to the tyrant God or unto Sin	D2
The lecher sunder	E2
Ah came that undulant light from over or from under	E2
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XIII	-
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It matters not Come change come Woe Come mask	F2
Drive Light Life Love into the deep	L
In vain we labour at the loathsome task	F2
Not knowing if we wake or sleep	L
But in the end we lift the plumed casque	F2
Of the dead warrior	E2
Find no chaste corpse therein but a soft smiling whore	G2
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XIV	-
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Then I returned into myself and took	F2
All in my arms God's universe	-
Crushed its black juice out while His anger shook	F2
His dumbness pregnant with a curse	-
I made me ink and in a little book	F2
I wrote one word	V
That God himself the adder of Thought had never heard	V
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XV	-
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It detonated Nature God mankind	V
Like sulphur nitre charcoal once	-
Blended in one annihilation blind	V
Were rent into a myriad of suns	-
Yea all the mighty fabric of a Mind	V
Stood in the abyss	-
Belching a Law for quot That quot more awful than for quot This quot	V
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XVI	-
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Vain was the toil So then I left the wood	V
And came unto the still black sea	-
That oily monster of beatitude	V
'Hath quot Thee quot for quot Me quot and quot Me quot for quot Thee quot	V
There as I stood a mask of solitude	V
Hiding a face	-
Wried as a satyr's rolled that ocean into space	-
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XVII	-
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Then did I build an altar on the shore	G2
Of oyster shells and ringed it round	V
With star fish Thither a green flame I bore	G2
Of phosphor foam and strewed the ground	V
With dew drops children of my wand whose core	G2
Was trembling steel	X
Electric that made spin the universal Wheel	X
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XVIII	-
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With that a goat came running from the cave	-
That lurked below the tall white cliff	-
Thy name cried I The answer that gave	-
Was but one tempest whisper quot If quot	V
Ah then his tongue to his black palate clave	-
For on soul's curtain	C
Is written this one certainty that naught is certain	C
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XIX	-
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So then I caught that goat up in a kiss	-
And cried Io Pan Io Pan Io Pan	H2
Then all this body's wealth of ambergris	-
Narcissus scented flesh of man	H2
I burnt before him in the sacrifice	-
For he was sure	I2
Being the Doubt of Things the one thing to endure	I2
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XX	-
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Wherefore when madness took him at the end	V
He doubt goat slew the goat of doubt	V
And that which inward did for ever tend	V
Came at the last to have come out	V
And I who had the World and God to friend	V
Found all three foes	-
Drowned in that sea of changes vacancies and woes	-
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XXI	-
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Yet all that Sea was swallowed up therein	D2
So they were not and it was not	V
As who should sweat his soul out through the skin	D2
And find sad fool he had begot	V
All that without him that he had left in	D2
And in himself	-
All he had taken out thereof a mocking elf	-
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XXII	-
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But now that all was gone great Pan appeared	V
Him then I strove to woo to win	D2
Kissing his curled lips playing with his beard	V
Setting his brain a shake a spin	D2
By that strong wand and muttering of the weird	V
That only I	-
Knew of all souls alive or dead beneath the sky	-
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XXIII	-
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So still I conquered and the vision passed	V
Yet still was beaten for I knew	Z
Myself was He Himself the first and last	V
And as an unicorn drinks dew	Z
From under oak leaves so my strength was cast	V
Into the mire	J2
For all I did was dream and all I dreamt desire	E2
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XXIV	-
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More in this journey I had clean forgotten	C
The quest my lover But the tomb	K2
Of all these thoughts the rancid and the rotten	C
Proved in the end to be my womb	K2
Wherein my Lord and lover had begotten	D2
A little child	V
To drive me laughing lion into the wanton wild	V
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XXV	-
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This child hath not one hair upon his head	V
But he hath wings instead of ears	-
No eyes hath he but all his light is shed	V
Within him on the ordered sphere	C2
Of nature that he hideth and in stead	V
Of mouth he hath	L2
One minute point of jet silence the lightning path	L2
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XXVI	-
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Also his nostrils are shut up for he	-
Hath not the need of any breath	M2
Nor can the curtain of eternity	-
Cover that head with life or death	M2
So all his body a slim almond tree	-
Knoweth no bough	N2
Nor branch nor twig nor bud from never until now	N2
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XXVII	-
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This thought I bred within my bowels I am	O2
I am in him as he in me	-
And like a satyr ravishing a lamb	O2
So either seems or as the sea	-
Swallows the whale that swallows it the ram	O2
Beats its own head	V
Upon the city walls that fall as it falls dead	V
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XXVIII	-
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Come let me back unto the lilied lawn	G
Pile me the roses and the thorns	-
Upon this bed from which he hath withdrawn	G
He may return A million morns	-
May follow that first dire daemonic dawn	G
When he did split	V
My spirit with his lightnings and enveloped it	V
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XXIX	-
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So I am stretched out naked to the knife	-
My whole soul twitching with the stress	-
Of the expected yet surprising strife	-
A martyrdom of blessedness	-
Though Death came I could kiss him into life	-
Though Life came I	-
Could kiss him into death and yet nor live nor die	-
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XXX	-
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Yet I that am the babe the sire the dam	O2
Am	O2