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The swift red flesh a winter king	A
Who squired the glacier woman down the sky	B
She ran the neighing canyons all the spring	A
She spouted arms she rose with maize to die	B
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And in the autumn drouth whose burnished hands	C
With mineral wariness found out the stone	D
Where prayers forgotten streamed the mesa sands	C
He holds the twilight s dim perpetual throne	D
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Mythical brows we saw retiring loth	E
Disturbed and destined into denser green	F
Greeting they sped us on the arrow s oath	G
Now lie incorrigibly what years between	F
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There was a bed of leaves and broken play	H
There was a veil upon you Pocahontas bride	I
O Princess whose brown lap was virgin May	H
And bridal flanks and eyes hid tawny pride	I
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I left the village for dogwood By the canoe	J
Tugging below the mill race I could see	K
Your hair s keen crescent running and the blue	J
First moth of evening take wing stealthily	J
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What laughing chains the water wove and threw	J
I learned to catch the trout s moon whisper I	B
Drifted how many hours I never knew	J
But watching saw that fleet young crescent die	B
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And one star swinging take its place alone	D
Cupped in the larches of the mountain pass	L
Until immortally it bled into the dawn	M
I left my sleek boat nibbling margin grass	L
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I took the portage climb then chose	N
A further valley shed I could not stop	O
Feet nozzled wat ry webs of upper flows	N
One white veil gusted from the very top	O
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O Appalachian Spring I gained the ledge	P
Steep inaccessible smile that eastward bends	Q
And northward reaches in that violet wedge	P
Of Adirondacks wisped of azure wands	R
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Over how many bluffs tarns streams I sped	S
And knew myself within some boding shade	T
Grey tepees tufting the blue knolls ahead	S
Smoke swirling through the yellow chestnut glade	T
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A distant cloud a thunder bud it grew	J
That blanket of the skies the padded foot	U
Within I heard it til its rhythm drew	J
Siphoned the black pool from the heart s hot root	V
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A cyclone threshes in the turbine crest	W
Swooping in eagle feathers down your back	X
Know Maquokeeta greeting know death s best	W
Fall Sachem strictly as the tamarack	X
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A birch kneels All her whistling fingers fly	B
The oak grove circles in a crash of leaves	Y
The long moan of a dance is in the sky	B
Dance Maquokeeta Pocahontas grieves	Y
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And every tendon scurries toward the twangs	Y
Of lightning deltaed down your saber hair	Z
Now snaps the flint in every tooth red fangs	Y
And splay tongues thinly busy the blue air	Z
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Dance Maquokeeta snake that lives before	A2
That casts his pelt and lives beyond Sprout horn	B2
Spark tooth Medicine man relent restore	A2
Lie to us dance us back the tribal morn	B2
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Spears and assemblies black drums thrusting on	C2
O yelling battlements I too was liege	D2
To rainbows currying each pulsant bone	D
Surpassed the circumstance danced out the siege	D2
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And buzzard circleted screamed from the stake	X
I could not pick the arrows from my side	I
Wrapped in that fire I saw more escorts wake	X
Flickering sprint up the hill groins like a tide	I
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I heard the hush of lava wrestling your arms	Y
And stag teeth foam about the raven throat	E2
Flame cataracts of heaven in seething swarms	Y
Fed down your anklets to the sunset s moat	E2
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like the lizard in the furious noon	F2
That drops his legs and colors in the sun	G2
And laughs pure serpent Time itself and moon	F2
Of his own fate I saw thy change begun	G2
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And saw thee dive to kiss that destiny	K
Like one white meteor sacrosanct and blent	E2
At last with all that s consummate and free	K
There where the first and last gods keep thy tent	E2
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Thewed of the levin thunder shod and lean	F
Lo through what infinite seasons dost thou gaze	Y
Across what bivouacs of thine angered slain	H2
And see st thy bride immortal in the maize	Y
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Totem and fire gall slumbering pyramid	E2
Though other calendars now stack the sky	B
Thy freedom is her largesse Prince and hid	E2
On paths thou knewest best to claim her by	B
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High unto Labrador the sun strikes free	K
Her speechless dream of snow and stirred again	I2
She is the torrent and the singing tree	K
And she is virgin to the last of men	I2
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West west and south winds over Cumberland	E2
And winds across the liana grass resume	J2
Her hair s warm sibilance Her breasts are fanned	E2
O stream by slope and vineyard into bloom	J2
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And when the caribou slant down for salt	E2
Do arrows thirst and leap Do antlers shine	K2
Alert star triggered in the listening vault	E2
Of dusk And are her perfect brows to thine	K2
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We danced Brave we danced beyond their farms	Y
In cobalt desert closures made our vows	Y
Now is the strong prayer folded in thine arms	Y
The serpent with the eagle in the boughs	Y

Harold Hart Crane

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