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I have been down in a dark valley	A
I have been groping through a deep gorge	B
Far above the lips of it were rimmed with moon	C
light	D
And here and there the light lay on the dripping	E
rocks	F
So that it seemed they dripped with moonlight	D
not with water	G
So deep it was that narrow gash among the hills	H
That those great pines which fringed its edge	I
Seemed to me no larger than upthrust fingers	J
Silhouetted against the sky	K
And at its top the vale was strait	L
And the rays were slant	M
And reached but part way down the sides	N
I could not see the moon itself	O
I walked through darkness and the valley's edge	I
Seemed almost level with the stars	P
The stars that were like fireflies in the little trees	Q
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It was the midnight of defeat	R
I felt that I had failed	S
I was mocked of the gods	T
There was no way out of that gorge	B
The paths led no whither	G
And I could not remember their beginnings	U
I was doomed to wander evermore	V
Thirsty with the sound of mocking waters in	W
mine ears	X
Groping with gleams of useless light	D
Splashed in ironic beauty on the rocks above	Y
And so I whined	D
	-
And then despair flashed into rage	Z
I leapt erect and cried	D
Could I but grasp my life as sculptors grasp the clay	A2
And knead and thrust it into shape again	B2
If all the scorn of Heaven were but thrown	C2
Into the focus of some creature I could clutch	D2
If something tangible were but vouchsafed me	A
By the cold far gods	T
If they but sent a Reason for the failure of my life	E2
I'd answer it	D
If they but sent a Fiend I'd conquer it	D
	-
But I reach out and grasp the air	F2
I rage and the brute rock echoes my words in	W
mockery	A
How can one fight the sliding moonlight on the cliffs	G2
You gods coward gods	T
Come down I challenge you	H2
You who set snares with roses and with passion	I2
You who make flesh beautiful and damn men through	H2
the flesh	J2
You who plump the purple grape and then put poison	I2
in the cup	K2
You who put serpents in your Edens	L2
You who gave me delight of my senses and broke me	A
for it	D
You who have mingled death with beauty	A
You who have put into my blood the impulses for	V
which you cursed me	A
You who permitted my brain the doubts wherefore	V
you damn me	A
Behold I doubt you gods no longer but defy	K
I perish here	V
Then I will be slain of a god	D
You who have wrapped me in the scorn of your silence	M2
The divinity in this same dust you flout	D
	-
i Flames through the dust	D
And dares	N2
And flings you back your scorn	O2
Come face to face and slay me if you will	P2
But not until you've felt the weight	D
Of all betricked humanity's contempt	D
In one bold blow	Q2
Speak forth a Reason and I will answer it	D
Yes to your faces I will answer it	D
Come garmented in flesh and I will fight with you	H2
Yes in your faces will I smite you gods	T
Coward gods and tricksters that set traps	R2
In paradise	S2
Far gods that hedge yourselves about with silence	M2
And with distance	M2
That mock men from the unscalable escarpments of	Y
your Heavens	L2
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Thus I raved being mad	D
I had no sooner finished speaking than I felt	D
The darkness fluttered by approaching feet	D
And the silence was burned through by trembling	E
flames of sound	D
And I was 'ware that Something stood by me	A
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And with a shout I leapt and grasped that Being	E
And the Thing grasped me	A
We came to wrestling grips	T2
And back and forth we swayed	D
Hand seeking throat and crook'd knee seeking	E
To encrook unwary leg	U2
And spread toes grasping the uneven ground	D
The strained breast muscles cracked and creaked	D
The sweat ran in my eyes	V2
The plagued breath sobbed and whistled through	H2
my throat	D
I tasted blood and strangled but still struggled	D
on	W2
The stars above me danced in swarms like yellow	Q2
bees	Q
The shaken moonlight writhed upon the rocks	F
But at the last I felt his breathing weaker grow	Q2
The tense limbs grow less tense	X2
And with a bursting cry I bent his head right	D
back	Y2
Back back until	P2
I heard his neck bones snap	Z2
His spine crunched in my grip	A3
I flung him to the earth and knelt upon his breast	D
	-
And listened till the fluttering pulse was stilled	D
Man god or devil I had wrenched the life from	B3
him	C3
	-
And lo even as he died	D
The moonlight failed above the vale	D3
And somehow sure I know now how	E3
Between the rifted rocks the great Sun struck	F3
A finger down the cliff and that red beam	G3
Lay sharp across the face of him that I had slain	H3
And in that light I read the answer of the silent	D
gods	T
Unto my cursed out prayer	V
For he that lay upon the ground was I	K
I understood the lesson then	B2
It was myself that lay there dead	D
Yes I had slain my Self	O

Don Marquis

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