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LXII	A
	-
I read the primrose and the sea	A
and remember nothing	B
I read Arcturus and the snow	C
and remember nothing	B
I read the green and white book of spring	B
and remember nothing	B
I read the hatred in a man s eye	D
Lord I remember nothing	B
	-
Scorn spat at me and spoke	E
I remember it not	F
The river was frozen round the ship	G
I remember it not	F
I found a secret message in a blade of grass	A
and it is forgotten	H
I called my lovers by their sweet names	A
they are all forgotten	H
	-
Where are my lovers now	I
buried in me	A
The blades of grass the ships the scorners	A
here in me	A
The haters in the spring snow and Arcturus	A
here in me	A
The primrose and the sea	A
here in me	A
	-
I know what humans know	C
no less no more	J
I know how the summer breaks	A
on Neptune s shore	J
I know how winter freezes	A
the Milky Way	K
My heart s home is in Limbo	C
and there I stay	K
	-
Praise Limbo heart and praise	A
forgetfulness	A
We know what the tiger knows	A
no more no less	A
We know what the primrose thinks	A
and think it too	L
We walk when the snail walks	A
across the dew	L
	-
I was a rash man in my time	M
but now I am still	N
I spoke with god s voice once	A
now I am still	N
Evil made my right hand strong	O
which now is still	N
Wisdom gave me pride once	A
but it is still	N
	-
Lie down poor heart at last	P
and have your rest	Q
Remember to forget	R
and have your rest	Q
Think of yourself as once you were	S
at your best	Q
And then lie down alone	T
and have your rest	Q
	-
These things are as time weaves them	U
on his loom	V
Forgot forgetting we survive not	F
mortal bloom	V
Let us give thanks to space	A
for a little room	V
Space is our face and time our death	W
two poles of doom	V
	-
Come dance around the compass	A
pointing north	X
Before face downward frozen	H
we go forth	X
	-
LXIII	A
	-
Thus systole addressed diastole	A
The heart contracting with its grief of burden	H
To the lax heart with grief of burden gone	Y
	-
Thus star to dead leaf speaks thus cliff to sea	A
And thus the spider on a summer s day	K
To the bright thistledown trapped in the web	Z
	-
No language leaps this chasm like a lightning	B
Here is no message of assuagement blown	T
From Ecuador to Greenland here is only	A
	-
A trumpet blast that calls dead men to arms	A
The granite s pity for the cloud the whisper	S
Of time to space	A

Conrad Potter Aiken

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