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To N L	A
THERE were strange riders once came gusting down	B
Cloaked in dark furs with faces grave and sweet	C
And white as air None knew them they were strangers	D
Princes gone feasting barons with gipsy eyes	E
And names that rang like viols perchance who knows	F
Kings of old Tartary forgotten swept from Asia	G
Blown on raven chargers across the world	H
For ever smiling sadly in their beards	I
And stamping abruptly into courtyards at midnight	J
Post boys would run lanterns hang frostily horses fume	K
The strangers wake the Inn Men staring outside	L
Past watery glass thick panes could watch them eat	C
Dyed with gold vapours in the candleflame	K
Clapping their gloves and stuck with crusted stones	M
Their garments foreign their talk a strange tongue	N
But sweet as pineapple it was Archdukes they must be	O
In daylight nothing only their prints remained	P
Bitten in snow They'd gone no one knew where	Q
Or when or by what road no one could guess	R
None but some sleepy girls half tangled in dreams	S
Mixing up miracle and desire laughing at first	T
Then staring with bright eyes at their beds opening their lips	U
Plucking a crushed gold feather in their fingers	D
And laughing again eyes closed But one remembered	V
Between strange kisses and cambric in the dark	W
That unearthly beard had lifted 'Your name child '	X
'Sophia sir and what to call your Grace '	X
Like a bubble of gilt he had laughed 'Mercury '	X
It is long now since great daemons walked on earth	Y
Staining with wild radiance a country bed	Z
And leaving only a confusion of sharp dreams	S
To vex a farm girl that and perhaps a feather	A2
Some thread of the Cloth of Gold a scale of metal	B2
Caught in her hair The unpastured Gods have gone	C2
They are above those fiery coasted clouds	D2
Floating like fins of stone in the burnt air	Q
And earth is only a troubled thought to them	K
That sometimes drifts like wind across the bodies	E2
Of the sky's women	F2
There is one yet comes knocking in the night	J
The drums of sweet conspiracy on the pane	G2
When darkness has arched his hands over the bush	H2
And Springwood steams with dew and the stars look down	B
On that one lonely chamber	A2
She is there suddenly lit by no torch or moon	I2
But by the shining of her naked body	O
Her breasts are berries broken in snow her hair	Q
Blows in a gold rain over and over them	K
She flings her kisses like warm guineas of love	J2
And when she walks the stars walk with her above	J2
She knocks The door swings open shuts again	K2
'Your name child '	X
A thousand birds cry 'Venus '	X

Kenneth Slessor

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