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You dull Goliaths clothed in coats of blue	A
Strained and half bursted by the swell of flesh	B
Topped by Gorilla heads You Marmoset	C
Trained scoundrel taught to question and ensnare	D
I hate you hate your laws and hate your courts	E
Hands off give me a chair now let me be	F
I'll tell you more than you can think to ask me	F
I love this woman but what is love to you	A
What is it to your laws or courts I love her	G
She loves me if you'd know I entered her room	H
She stood before me naked shrank a little	I
Cried out a little calmed her sudden cry	J
When she saw amiable passion in my eyes	K
She loves me if you'd know I saw in her eyes	K
More in those moments than whole hours of talk	L
From witness stands exculpate could make clear	M
My innocence	N
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But if I did a crime	O
My excuse is hunger hunger for more life	P
Oh what a world where beauty rapture love	Q
Are walled in and locked up like coal or food	R
And only may he had by purchasers	S
From whose fat fingers slip the unheeded gold	T
Oh what a world where beauty lies in waste	U
While power and freedom skulk with famished lips	V
Too tightly pressed for curses	W
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So do men	X
Save for the thousandth man deny themselves	Y
And live in meagreness to make sure a life	P
Of meagreness by hearth stones long since stale	Z
And live in ways companionships as fixed	A2
As the geared figures of the Strassburg clock	B2
You wonder at war Why war lets loose desires	S
Emotions long repressed Would you stop war	C2
Then let men live The moral equivalent	D2
Of war is freedom Art does not suffice	E2
Religion is not life but life is living	F2
And painted cherries to the hungry thrush	G2
Is art to life The artist lived his work	H2
You cannot live his life who love his work	H2
You are the thrush that pecks at painted cherries	I2
Who hope to live through art Beer soaked Goliaths	J2
The story's coming of her nakedness	J2
Be patient for a time	O
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All this I learned	K2
While painting pictures no one ever bought	L2
Till hunger drove me to this servile work	H2
As butler in her father's house with time	O
On certain days to walk the galleries	J2
And look at pictures marbles For I saw	J2
I was not living while I painted pictures	J2
I was not living working for a crust	M2
I was not living walking galleries	J2
All this was but vicarious life which felt	N2
Through gazing at the thing the artist made	O2
In memory of the life he lived himself	P2
As we preserve the fragrance of a flower	G
By drawing off its essence in a bottle	I
Where color fluttering leaves are thrown away	Q2
To get the inner passion of the flower	G
Extracted to a bottle that a queen	R2
May act the flower's part	S2
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Say what you will	T2
Make laws to strangle life shout from your pulpits	J2
Your desks of editors your woolsack benches	J2
Where judges sit that this dull hypocrite	U2
You call the State has fashioned life aright	U2
The secret is abroad from eye to eye	J
The secret passes from poor eyes that wink	V2
In boredom in fatigue in furious strength	W2
Roped down or barred that what the human heart	U2
Dreams of and hopes for till the aspiring flame	X2
Flaps in the guttered candle and goes out	U2
Is love for body and for spirit love	Q
To satisfy their hunger Yet what is it	U2
This earth this life what is it but a meadow	U2
Where spirits are left free a little while	Y2
Within a little space so long as strength	W2
Flesh blood increases to the day of use	J2
As roasts or stews wherewith this witless beast	U2
Society may feed himself and keep	Z2
His olden shape and power	G
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Fools go crop	A3
The herbs they turn you to and starve yourself	P2
For what you want and count it righteousness	J2
No less you covet love Poor shadows sighing	F2
Across the curtain racing Mangled souls	J2
Pecking so feebly at the painted cherries	J2
Inhaling from a bottle what was lived	U2
These summers gone You know and scarce deny	J
That what we men desire are horses dogs	J2
Loves women insurrections travel change	B3
Thrill in the wreck and rapture for the change	B3
And re adjusted order	G
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As I turned	U2
From painting and from art yet found myself	P2
Full of all lusts while bound to menial work	H2
Where my eyes daily rested on this woman	C3
A thought came to me like a little spark	D3
One sees far down the darkness of a cave	E3
Which grows into a flame a blinding light	U2
As one approaches it so did this thought	U2
Both burn and blind me For I loved this woman	C3
I wanted her why should I lose this woman	C3
What was there to oppose possession Will	T2
Her will you say I am not sure but then	X
Which will is better mine or hers Which will	T2
Deserves achievement Which has rights above	Q
The other I desire her her desire	G
Is not toward me which of these two desires	J2
Shall triumph Why not mine for me and hers	J2
For her at least the stronger must prevail	Z
And wreck itself or bend all else before it	U2
That millionaire who wooed her tried in vain	F3
To overwhelm her will with gold and I	J
With passion boldness would have overwhelmed it	U2
And what's the difference	J2
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But as I said	U2
I walked the galleries When I stood in the yard	U2
Bare armed bare throated at my work she came	X2
And gazed upon me from her window I	J
Could feel the exhausting influence of her eyes	J2
Then in a concentration which was blindness	J2
To all else so bewilderment of mind	U2
I'd go to see Watteau's Antiope	A3
Where he sketched Zeus in hunger drawing back	G3
The veil that hid her sleeping nakedness	J2
There was Correggio's too on whom a satyr	G
Smiled for his amorous wonder A Semele	F
Done by an unknown hand a thing of lightning	F2
Moved through by Zeus who seized her as the flames	J2
Consumed her ravished beauty	F
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So I looked	U2
And trembled then returned perhaps to find	U2
Her eyes upon me conscious calm elate	U2
And radiate with lashes of surprise	J2
Delight as when a star is still but shines	J2
And on this night somehow our natures worked	U2
To climaxes For first she dressed for dinner	G
To show more back and bosom than before	G
And as I served her her down looking eyes	J2
Were more than glances Then she dropped her napkin	H3
Before I could begin to bend she leaned	U2
And let me see oh yes she let me see	F
The white foam of her little breasts caressing	F2
The scarlet flame of silk a swooning shore	G
Of bright carnations It was from such foam	I3
That Venus rose And as I stooped and gave	E3
The napkin to her she pushed out a foot	U2
And then I coughed for breath grown short and she	F
Concealed a smile and you you jailers laugh	J3
Coarse mouthed and mock my hunger	G
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I go on	K3
Observe how courage boldness mark my steps	J2
At nine o'clock she climbs to her boudoir	G
I finding errands in the hallway hear	G
The desultory taking up of books	J2
And through her open door see her at last	U2
Cast off her dinner gown and to the bath	L3
Step like a ray of moonlight Then she snaps	J2
The light on where the onyx tub and walls	J2
Dazzle the air I enter then her room	H
And stand against the closed door do not pry	G
Upon her in the bath Give her the chance	J2
To fly me fight me standing face to face	J2
I hear her flounder in the water hear	G
Hands slap and slip with water breast and arms	J2
Hear little sighs and shudders and the roughness	J2
Of crash towels on her back when in a minute	U2
She stands with back toward me in the doorway	Q2
A sea shell glory pink and white to hair	G
Sun lit a lily crowned with powdered gold	U2
She turned toward her dresser then and shook	M3
White dust of talcum on her arms and looked	U2
So lovingly upon her tense straight breasts	J2
Touching them under with soft tapering hands	J2
To blue eyes deepening like a brazier flame	X2
Turned by a sudden gust Who gives her these	J2
The thought ran through me for her joy alone	N3
And not for mine	O3
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So I stood there like Zeus	J2
Coming in thunder to Semele like	P3
The diety of Watteau Correggio	P3
Had never painted me a satyr there	G
Drinking her beauty in so worshipful	I
My will subdued in worship of her beauty	F
To obey her will	T2
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And then she turned and saw me	F
And faced me in her nakedness nor tried	U2
To hide it from me faced me immovable	I
A Mona Lisa smile upon her lips	J2
And let me plead my cause make known my love	Q
Speak out my torture wearing still the smile	Y2
Let me approach her till I almost touched	U2
The whiteness of her bosom Then it seemed	U2
That smile of hers not wilting me she clapped	U2
Hands over eyes and said I am afraid	U2
Oh no it cannot be what would they say	Q2
Then rushing in the bathroom quick she slammed	U2
The door and shrieked You scoundrel go you beast	U2
My dream went up like paper charred and whirled	U2
Above a hearth Thrilling I stood alone	N3
Amid her room and saw my life our life	P
Embodied in this woman lately there	G
Lying and cowardly And as I turned	U2
To leave the room her father and the gardener	G
Pounced on me threw me down a flight of stairs	J2
And turned me over stunned to you the law	J2
Here with these others who have stolen coal	Q3
To keep them warm as I have stolen beauty	F
To keep from freezing in this arid country	F
Of winter winds on which the dust of custom	R3
Rides like a fog	P3
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Now do your worst to me	F