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Nay lift me to thy lips Life and once more	A
Pour the wild music through me	B
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I quivered in the reed bed with my kind	C
Rooted in Lethe bank when at the dawn	D
There came a groping shape of mystery	B
Moving among us that with random stroke	E
Severed and rapt me from my silent tribe	F
Pierced fashioned lipped me sounding for a voice	G
Laughing on Lethe bank and in my throat	H
I felt the wing beat of the fledgeling notes	I
The bubble of godlike laughter in my throat	H
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Such little songs she sang	J
Pursing her lips to fit the tiny pipe	K
They trickled from me like a slender spring	L
That strings frail wood growths on its crystal thread	M
Nor dreams of glassing cities bearing ships	N
She sang and bore me through the April world	O
Matching the birds doubling the insect hum	P
In the meadows under the low moving airs	Q
And breathings of the scarce articulate air	R
When it makes mouths of grasses but when the sky	S
Burst into storm and took great trees for pipes	T
She thrust me in her breast and warm beneath	U
Her cloudy vesture on her terrible heart	V
I shook and heard the battle	W
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But more oft	X
Those early days we moved in charmed woods	Y
Where once at dusk she piped against a faun	D
And one warm dawn a tree became a nymph	Z
Listening and trembled and Life laughed and passed	A2
And once we came to a great stream that bore	A
The stars upon its bosom like a sea	B
And ships like stars so to the sea we came	B2
And there she raised me to her lips and sent	C2
One swift pang through me then refrained her hand	D2
And whispered Hear and into my frail flanks	E2
Into my bursting veins the whole sea poured	F2
Its spaces and its thunder and I feared	G2
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We came to cities and Life piped on me	B
Low calls to dreaming girls	H2
In counting house windows through the chink of gold	I2
Flung cries that fired the captive brain of youth	J2
And made the heavy merchant at his desk	K2
Curse us for a cracked hurdy gurdy Life	L2
Mimicked the hurdy gurdy and we passed	A2
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We climbed the slopes of solitude and there	R
Life met a god who challenged her and said	M
Thy pipe against my lyre But Wait she laughed	M2
And in my live flank dug a finger hole	N2
And wrung new music from it Ah the pain	D
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We climbed and climbed and left the god behind	C
We saw the earth spread vaster than the sea	B
With infinite surge of mountains surfed with snow	D
And a silence that was louder than the deep	O2
But on the utmost pinnacle Life again	D
Hid me and I heard the terror in her hair	R
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Safe in new vales I ached for the old pang	J
And clamoured Play me against a god again	D
Poor Marsyas mortal he shall bleed thee yet	P2
She breathed and kissed me stilling the dim need	Q2
But evermore it woke and stabbed my flank	R2
With yearnings for new music and new pain	D
Another note against another god	S2
I clamoured and she answered Bide my time	T2
Of every heart wound I will make a stop	U2
And drink thy life in music pang by pang	J
But first thou must yield the notes I stored in thee	B
At dawn beside the river Take my lips	N
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She kissed me like a lover but I wept	V2
Remembering that high song against the god	S2
And the old songs slept in me and I was dumb	P
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We came to cavernous foul places blind	C
With harpy wings and sulphurous with the glare	R
Of sinful furnaces where hunger toiled	W2
And pleasure gathered in a starveling prey	X2
And death fed delicately on young bones	Y2
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Now sing cried Life and set her lips to me	B
Here are gods also Wilt thou pipe for Dis	Z2
My cry was drowned beneath the furnace roar	A
Choked by the sulphur fumes and beast lipped gods	A3
Laughed down on me and mouthed the flutes of hell	B3
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Now sing said Life reissuing to the stars	C3
And wrung a new note from my wounded side	D3
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So came we to clear spaces and the sea	B
And now I felt its volume in my heart	V
And my heart waxed with it and Life played on me	B
The song of the Infinite Now the stars she said	M
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Then from the utmost pinnacle again	D
She poured me on the wild sidereal stream	E3
And I grew with her great breathings till we swept	V2
The interstellar spaces like new worlds	F3
Loosed from the fiery ruin of a star	G3
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Cold cold we rested on black peaks again	D
Under black skies under a groping wind	C
And Life grown old hugged me to a numb breast	H3
Pressing numb lips against me Suddenly	B
A blade of silver severed the black peaks	I3
From the black sky and earth was born again	D
Breathing and various under a god's feet	J3
A god A god I felt the heart of Life	L2
Leap under me and my cold flanks shook again	D
He bore no lyre he rang no challenge out	K3
But Life warmed to him warming me with her	L3
And as he neared I felt beneath her hands	M3
The stab of a new wound that sucked my soul	N2
Forth in a new song from my throbbing throat	H
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His name his name I whispered but she shed	M
The music faster and I grew with it	N3
Became a part of it while Life and I	S
Clung lip to lip and I from her wrung song	O3
As she from me one song one ecstasy	B
In indistinguishable union blent	N3
Till she became the flute and I the player	L3
And lo the song I played on her was more	A
Than any she had drawn from me it held	N3
The stars the peaks the cities and the sea	B
The faun's catch the nymph's tremor and the heart	N3
Of dreaming girls of toilers at the desk	K2
Apollo's challenge on the sunrise slope	P3
And the hiss of the night gods mouthing flutes of hell	B3
All to the dawn wind's whisper in the reeds	Q3
When Life first came a shape of mystery	B
Moving among us and with random stroke	E
Severed and rapt me from my silent tribe	F
All this I wrung from her in that deep hour	L3
While Love stood murmuring Play the god poor grass	R3
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Now by that hour I am a mate to thee	B
Forever Life however spent and clogged	N3
And tossed back useless to my native mud	N3
Yea groping for new reeds to fashion thee	B
New instruments of anguish and delight	N3
Thy hand shall leap to me thy broken reed	N3
Thine ear remember me thy bosom thrill	S3
With the old subjection then when Love and I	S
Held thee and fashioned thee and made thee dance	T3
Like a slave girl to her pipers yea thou yet	N3
Shalt hear my call and dropping all thy toys	U3
Thou'lt lift me to thy lips Life and once more	A
Pour the wild music through me	B

Edith Wharton

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