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I	A
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Not yet had History's Aetna smoked the skies	B
And low the Gallic Giantess lay enchained	C
While overhead in ordered set and rise	B
Her kingly crowns immutably defiled	C
Effulgent on funereal piled	C
Across the vacant heavens and distrained	C
Her body mutely even as earth to bear	D
Despoiled the tomb of hope her mouth of air	D
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II	A
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Through marching scores of winters racked she lay	E
Beneath a hoar frost's brilliant crust	C
Whereon the jewelled flies that drained	C
Her breasts disported in a glistering spray	E
She the land's fount of fruits enclosed with dust	C
By good and evil angels fed sustained	C
In part to curse in part to pray	E
Sucking the dubious rumours till men saw	F
The throbs of her charged heart before the Just	C
So worn the harrowed surface had become	G
And still they deemed the dance above was Law	F
Amort all passion in a rebel dumb	G
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III	A
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Then on the unanticipated day	E
Earth heaved and rose a veinous mound	C
To roar of the underfloods and off it sprang	H
Ravishing as red wine in woman's form	I
A splendid Maenad she of the delirious laugh	J
Her body twisted flames with the smoke cap crowned	C
She of the Bacchic foot the challenger to the fray	E
Bewitchment for the embrace who sang who sang	H
Intoxication to her swarm	I
Revolved them hair voice feet in her carmagnole	F
As with a stroke she snapped the Royal staff	J
Dealt the awaited blow on gilt decay	E
O ripeness of the time O Retribution sure	K
If but our vital lamp illume us to endure	K
And like a glad releasing of her soul	F
Sent the word Liberty up to meet the midway blue	F
Her bridegroom in descent to her and they joined	C
In the face of men they joined attest it true	F
The million witnesses that she	L
For ages lying beside the mole	F
Was on the unanticipated miracle day	E
Upraised to midway heaven and as to her goal	F
Enfolded ere the Immaculate knew	F
What Lucifer of the Mint had coined	C
His bride's adulterate currency	L
Of burning love corrupt of an infuriate hate	C
She worthy she unworthy that one day his mate	C
His mate for that one day of the unwritten deed	C
Read backward on the hoar frost's brilliant crust	C
Beneath it read	C
Athirst to kiss athirst to slay she stood	C
A radiance fringed with grim affright	C
For them that hungered she was nourishing food	C
For those who sparkled Night	C
Read in her heart and how before the Just	C
Her doings her misdoings plead	C
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IV	J
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Down on her leap for him the young Angelical broke	M
To husband a resurgent France	N
From whom with her dethroning stroke	M
Dishonour passed the dalliance	O
That is occasion's yea or nay	E
In issues for the soul to pay	E
Discarded and the cleft 'twixt deed and word	C
The sinuous lie which warbles the sweet bird	C
Wherein we see old Darkness peer	P
Cold Dissolution beck she had flung hence	Q
And hence the talons and the beak of prey	E
Hence all the lures to silken swine	R
Thronging the troughs of indolence	Q
With every sleek convolvement serpentine	R
The pride in elfin arts to veil an evil leer	E
And bid a goatfoot trip it like a fay	E
He clasped in this revived uprisen France	Q
A valorous dame of countenance	Q
The lightning's upon cloud unlit as yet	C
On brows and lips the lurid shine	R
Of seas in the night wind's whirl unstirred	C
Her pouch of the centuries' injuries compressed	C
The shriek that tore the world as yet unheard	C
Earth's animate full flower she looked intense	Q
For worship wholly given him fair	E
Adoring or desiring in her bright jet	C
Earth's crystal spring to sky Earth's warrior Best	C
To win Heaven's Pure up that midway	E
We vision for new ground where sense	Q
And spirit are one for the further flight breast bare	E
Bare limbed nor graceless gleamed her disarray	E
In scorn of the seductive insincere	E
But martially nude for hot Bellona's play	E
And amorous of the loftiest in her view	J
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V	J
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She sprang from dust to drink of earth's cool dew	J
The breath of swaying grasses share	E
Mankind embrace their weaklings rear	E
At wrestle with the tyrannic strong	S
Her forehead clear to her mate virgin anew	J
As immortals may be in the mortal sphere	E
Read through her launching heart who had lain long	S
With Earth and heard till it became her own	T
Our good Great Mother's eve and matin song	S
The humming burden of Earth's toil to feed	C
Her creatures all her task to speed their growth	U
Her aim to lead them up her pathways shown	T
Between the Pains and Pleasures warned of both	U
Of either aided on their hard ascent	C
Now when she looked with love's benign delight	C
After great ecstasy along the plains	Q
What foulest impregnation of her sight	C
Transformed the scene to multitudinous troops	Q
Of human sketches quaver figures bent	C
As were they winter sedges broken hoops	Q
Dry udder vineless poles worm eaten posts	Q
With features like the flowers defaced by deluge rains	Q
Recked she that some perverting devil had limned	C
Earth's proudest to spout scorn of the Maker's hand	C
Who could a day behold these deathly hosts	Q
And see decked graced and delicately trimmed	C
A ribanded and gemmed elected few	J
Sanctioned of milk and honey starve the land	C
Like melody in flesh its pleasant game	V
Olympianwise perform cloak but the shame	V
Beautiful statures hideous	Q
By Christian contrast pranked with golden chains	Q
And flexile where is manhood straight	C
Mortuaries where warm should beat	C
The brotherhood that keeps blood sweet	C
Who dared in cantique impious	Q
Proclaim the Just to whom was due	J
Cathedral gratitude in the pomp of state	C
For that on those lean outcasts hung the sucker Pains	Q
On these elect the swelling Pleasures grew	J
Surely a devil's land when that meant death for each	W
Fresh from the breast of Earth not thus	Q
With all the body's life to plump the leech	W
Is Nature's way she knew The abominable scene	X
Spat at the skies and through her veins	Q
To cloud celestially sown	T
Ran venom of what nourishment	C
Her dark sustainer subterrene	T
Supplied her stretched supine on the rack	Y
Alive in the shrewd nerves the seething brains	Q
Under derisive revels prone	T
As one clamped fast with the interminable senseless blent	C
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VI	J
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Now was her face white waves in the tempest's sharp flame blink	Z
Her skies shot black	Y
Now was it visioned infamy to drink	Z
Of earth's cool dew and through the vines	Q
Frolic in pearly laughter with her young	A2
Watching the healthful natural happy signs	Q
Where hands of lads and maids like tendrils clung	A2
After their sly shy ventures from the leaf	J
And promised bunches Now it seemed	C
The world was one malarious mire	E
Crying for purification chief	J
This land of France It seemed	C
A duteous desire	E
To drink of life's hot flood and the crimson streamed	C
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VII	J
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She drank what makes man demon at the draught	C
Her skies lowered black	Y
Her lover flew	J
There swept a shudder over men	T
Her heavenly lover fled her and she laughed	C
For laughter was her spirit's weapon then	T
The Infernal rose uncalled he with his crew	J
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VIII	J
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As mighty thews burst manacles she went mad	C
Her heart a flaring torch usurped her wits	Q
Such enemies of her next drawn breath she had	C
To tread her down in her live grave beneath	B2
Their dancing floor sunned blind by the Royal wreath	B2
They ringed her steps with crafty prison pits	Q
Without they girdled her made nest within	T
There ramped the lion here entrailed the snake	C2
They forced the cup to her lips when she drank blood	C
Believing it in the mother's mind at strain	T
In the mother's fears and in young Liberty's wail	F
Alarmed for her encompassed children's sake	C2
The sole sure way to save her priceless bud	C
Wherewith when power had gifted her to prevail	F
Vengeance appeared as logically akin	T
Insanely rational they she rationally insane	T
And in compute of sin was hers the appealing sin	T
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IX	Q
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Amid the plash of scarlet mud	C
Stained at the mouth drunk with our common air	E
Not lack of love was her defect	C
The Fury mourned and raged and bled for France	Q
Breat	C