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She rose among us where we lay	A
She wept we put our work away	A
She chilled our laughter stilled our play	A
And spread a silence there	B
And darkness shot across the sky	C
And once and twice we heard her cry	C
And saw her lift white hands on high	C
And toss her troubled hair	B
	-
What shape was this who came to us	D
With basilisk eyes so ominous	D
With mouth so sweet so poisonous	D
And tortured hands so pale	E
We saw her wavering to and fro	F
Through dark and wind we saw her go	F
Yet what her name was did not know	F
And felt our spirits fail	E
	-
We tried to turn away but still	G
Above we heard her sorrow thrill	G
And those that slept they dreamed of ill	G
And dreadful things	H
Of skies grown red with rending flames	I
And shuddering hills that cracked their frames	I
Of twilights foul with wings	H
	-
And skeletons dancing to a tune	J
And cries of children stifled soon	J
And over all a blood red moon	J
A dull and nightmare size	K
They woke and sought to go their ways	L
Yet everywhere they met her gaze	L
Her fixed and burning eyes	K
	-
Who are you now we cried to her	M
Spirit so strange so sinister	M
We felt dead winds above us stir	M
And in the darkness heard	N
A voice fall singing cloying sweet	O
Heavily dropping though that heat	O
Heavy as honeyed pulses beat	O
Slow word by anguished word	N
	-
And through the night strange music went	P
With voice and cry so darkly blent	P
We could not fathom what they meant	P
Save only that they seemed	P
To thin the blood along our veins	Q
Foretelling vile delirious pains	Q
And clouds divulging blood red rains	Q
Upon a hill undreamed	P
	-
And this we heard 'Who dies for me	R
He shall possess me secretly	R
My terrible beauty he shall see	R
And slake my body's flame	S
But who denies me cursed shall be	R
And slain and buried loathsomely	R
And slimed upon with shame '	-
	-
And darkness fell And like a sea	R
Of stumbling deaths we followed we	R
Who dared not stay behind	P
There all night long beneath a cloud	P
We rose and fell we struck and bowed	P
We were the ploughman and the ploughed	P
Our eyes were red and blind	P
	-
And some they said had touched her side	P
Before she fled us there	B
And some had taken her to bride	P
And some lain down for her and died	P
Who had not touched her hair	B
Ran to and fro and cursed and cried	P
And sought her everywhere	B
	-
'Her eyes have feasted on the dead	P
And small and shapely is her head	P
And dark and small her mouth ' they said	P
'And beautiful to kiss	T
Her mouth is sinister and red	P
As blood in moonlight is '	-
	-
Then poets forgot their jeweled words	U
And cut the sky with glittering swords	V
And innocent souls turned carrion birds	U
To perch upon the dead	P
Sweet daisy fields were drenched with death	W
The air became a charnel breath	W
Pale stones were splashed with red	P
	-
Green leaves were dappled bright with blood	P
And fruit trees murdered in the bud	P
And when at length the dawn	X
Came green as twilight from the east	P
And all that heaving horror ceased	P
Silent was every bird and beast	P
And that dark voice was gone	X
	-
No word was there no song no bell	R
No furious tongue that dream to tell	R
Only the dead who rose and fell	R
Above the wounded men	Y
And whisperings and wails of pain	Z
Blown slowly from the wounded grain	Z
Blown slowly from the smoking plain	Z
And silence fallen again	Y
	-
Until at dusk from God knows where	B
Beneath dark birds that filled the air	B
Like one who did not hear or care	B
Under a blood red cloud	P
An aged ploughman came alone	A2
And drove his share through flesh and bone	A2
And turned them under to mould and stone	A2
All night long he ploughed	P

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