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I	A
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Now it is autumn and the falling fruit	B
and the long journey towards oblivion	C
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The apples falling like great drops of dew	D
to bruise themselves an exit from themselves	E
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And it is time to go to bid farewell	F
to one's own self and find an exit	G
from the fallen self	H
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II	A
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Have you built your ship of death O have you	D
O build your ship of death for you will need it	G
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The grim frost is at hand when the apples will fall	I
thick almost thundrous on the hardened earth	J
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And death is on the air like a smell of ashes	K
Ah can't you smell it	G
And in the bruised body the frightened soul	L
finds itself shrinking wincing from the cold	M
that blows upon it through the orifices	K
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III	A
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And can a man his own quietus make	N
with a bare bodkin	O
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With daggers bodkins bullets man can make	N
a bruise or break of exit for his life	P
but is that a quietus O tell me is it quietus	K
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Surely not so for how could murder even self murder	Q
ever a quietus make	N
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IV	P
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O let us talk of quiet that we know	R
that we can know the deep and lovely quiet	S
of a strong heart at peace	K
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How can we this our own quietus make	N
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V	P
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Build then the ship of death for you must take	N
the longest journey to oblivion	C
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And die the death the long and painful death	T
that lies between the old self and the new	D
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Already our bodies are fallen bruised badly bruised	U
already our souls are oozing through the exit	G
of the cruel bruise	K
	-
Already the dark and endless ocean of the end	V
is washing in through the breaches of our wounds	K
Already the flood is upon us	K
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Oh build your ship of death your little ark	W
and furnish it with food with little cakes and wine	X
for the dark flight down oblivion	C
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VI	P
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Piecemeal the body dies and the timid soul	L
has her footing washed away as the dark flood rises	K
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We are dying we are dying we are all of us dying	Y
and nothing will stay the death flood rising within us	K
and soon it will rise on the world on the outside world	Z
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We are dying we are dying piecemeal our bodies are dying	Y
and our strength leaves us	K
and our soul cowers naked in the dark rain over the flood	A2
cowering in the last branches of the tree of our life	P
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VII	P
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We are dying we are dying so all we can do	D
is now to be willing to die and to build the ship	B2
of death to carry the soul on the longest journey	P
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A little ship with oars and food	C2
and little dishes and all accoutrements	K
fitting and ready for the departing soul	L
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Now launch the small ship now as the body dies	K
and life departs launch out the fragile soul	L
in the fragile ship of courage the ark of faith	D2
with its store of food and little cooking pans	K
and change of clothes	K
upon the flood's black waste	E2
upon the waters of the end	V
upon the sea of death where still we sail	F2
darkly for we cannot steer and have no port	G2
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There is no port there is nowhere to go	R
only the deepening blackness darkening still	H2
blacker upon the soundless ungurgling flood	A2
darkness at one with darkness up and down	I2
and sideways utterly dark so there is no direction any more	J2
and the little ship is there yet she is gone	K2
She is not seen for there is nothing to see her by	P
She is gone gone and yet	L2
somewhere she is there	M2
Nowhere	M2
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VIII	P
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And everything is gone the body is gone	K2
completely under gone entirely gone	K2
The upper darkness is heavy as the lower	Q
between them the little ship	B2
is gone	K2
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It is the end it is oblivion	C
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IX	K
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And yet out of eternity a thread	N2
separates itself on the blackness	K
a horizontal thread	N2
that fumes a little with pallor upon the dark	W
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Is it illusion or does the pallor fume	O2
A little higher	Q
Ah wait wait for there's the dawn	K2
the cruel dawn of coming back to life	P
out of oblivion	C
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Wait wait the little ship	B2
drifting beneath the deathly ashy grey	P2
of a flood dawn	K2
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Wait wait even so a flush of yellow	R
and strangely O chilled wan soul a flush of rose	K
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A flush of rose and the whole thing starts again	Q2
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X	K
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The flood subsides and the body like a worn sea shell	F
emerges strange and lovely	P
And the little ship wings home faltering and lapsing	Y
on the pink flood	A2
and the frail soul steps out into the house again	Q2
filling the heart with peace	K
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Swings the heart renewed with peace	K
even of oblivion	C
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Oh build your ship of death Oh build it	G
for you will need it	G
For the voyage of oblivion awaits you	D

David Herbert Lawrence

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