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THE MIND IS AN ANCIENT AND FAMOUS CAPITAL	A
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The mind is a city like London	B
Smoky and populous it is a capital	A
Like Rome ruined and eternal	A
Marked by the monuments which no one	B
Now remembers For the mind like Rome contains	C
Catacombs aqueducts amphitheatres palaces	D
Churches and equestrian statues fallen broken or soiled	E
The mind possesses and is possessed by all the ruins	F
Of every haunted hunted generation s celebration	B
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Call us what you will we are made such by love	G
We are such studs as dreams are made on and	H
Our little lives are ruled by the gods by Pan	I
Piping of all seeking to grasp or grasping	J
All of the grapes and by the bow and arrow god	K
Cupid piercing the heart through suddenly and forever	L
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Dusk we are to dusk returning after the burbing	J
After the gold fall the fallen ash the bronze	M
Scattered and rotten after the white null statues which	N
Are winter sleep and nothingness when	O
Will the houselights of the universe	P
Light up and blaze	Q
For it is not the sea	R
Which murmurs in a shell	S
And it is not only heart at harp o clock	J
It is the dread terror of the uncontrollable	A
Horses of the apocalypse running in wild dread	T
Toward Arcturus and returning as suddenly	R
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THE FEAR AND DREAD OF THE MIND OF THE OTHERS	U
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The others were the despots of despair	V
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The river s freshness sailed from unknown sources	D
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They snickered giggled laughed aloud at last	W
They mocked and marvelled at the statue which was	X
A caricature as strained and stiff and yet	Y
A statue of self love since self love was	X
To them truly my true love how then was I a stillness of nervousness	Z
So nervous a caricature did they suppose	A2
Self love was unrequited or betrayed	B2
They thought I had fallen in love with my own face	C2
And this belief became the night like obstacle	A
To understanding all my unbroken suffering	J
My studious self regard the pain of hope	D2
The torment of possibility	R
How then could I have expected them to see me	R
As I saw myself within my gaze or see	R
That being thus seemed as a toad a frog a wen a mole	E2
Knowing their certainty that I was only	R
A monument a monster who had fallen in love	G
With himself alone how could I have	F2
Told them what was in me within my heart trembling and passionate	G2
Within the labyrinth and caves of my mind which is	H2
Like every mind partly or wholly hidden from itself	I2
The words for what is in my heart and in my mind	J2
Do not exist But I must seek and search to find	J2
Amid the vines and orchards of the vivid world of day	K2
Approximate images imaginary parallels	L2
For what is my heart and dark within my mind	J2
Comparisons and mere metaphors for all	M2
Of them are substitutes both counterfeit and vague	J
They are at most deceptive resemblances	D
False in their very likeness like the sons	F
Who are alike and kin and more unlike and false	N2
Because they seem the father s very self but each one is	H2
Although begotten by the same forbears himself	I2
The unique self each one is unique like every other one	B
And everything older or younger nevertheless	O2
A passionate nonesuch who has before has been	P2
Do you hear do you see Do you understand me now and how	Q2
The words for what is my heart do not exist	R2
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THE RIVER WAS THE EMBLEM OF ALL BEAUTY ALL	M2
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The river was the abundant belly of beauty itself	I2
The river was the dream space where I walked	S2
The river was itself and yet it was flowing and freshening	J
A self anew another self or self renewed	T2
At every tick of eternity and by each glint of light	U2
Mounting or sparkling descending to shade and black	J
Had I but told them my heart told how it was	X
Taunted at noon and pacified at dusk at starfall midnight	U2
Strong in hope once more ever in eagerness	Z
Jumping like joy would they have heard How could they	K2
How when what they knew was like the grass	V2
Simple and certain known through the truth of touch another form and fountain of falsehood s fecundity	R
Gazing upon their faces as they gazed	W2
Could they have seen my faces as whores who are	X2
Holy and deified as priestesses of hope	D2
the sacred virgins of futurity	W2
Promising dear divinity precisely because	Y2
They were disfigured ducks who might become	Z2
And be and ever beloved white swans noble and beautiful	A
Could they have seen how my faces were	L
Bonfires of worship and vigil blazes of adoration and hope	D2
Surely they would have laughed again renewed their scorn	A3
Giggled and snickered cruel Surely have said	W2
This is the puerile mania of the obsessed	W2
The living logic of the lunatic	J
I was the statue of their merriment	W2
Dead and a death Pharoah and monster forsaken and lost	W2
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My faces were my apes my apes became	B3
Performers in the Sundays of their parks	C3
Buffoons or clowns in the farce or comedy	W2
When they took pleasure in knowing that they were not like me	W2
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I waited like obsession in solitude	W2
The sun s white terror tore and roared at me	W2
The moonlight almond white at night	W2
Whether awake or sleeping arrested me	W2
And sang softly haunted unlike the sun	B
But as the sun Withheld from me or took away	K2
Despair or peace making me once more	D3
With thought of what had never been before	D3

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