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I	A
MUSIC on the air's edge rides alone	B
Plumed like empastured Caesars of the sky	A
With a god's helmet now in the gold dye	A
Of sunlight the iron cloak the Tuscan stone	B
Melt to enchanted flesh a voice is blown	B
Down from the windy pit like a star falling	C
Men think it is a lost eagle calling	C
But the fool and the lover know it for Music's cry	A
He is running with the Valkyrs on a road of manes	D
Darkness draws back its fur the stars course by	A
Fighting the windy beaks of hurricanes	D
To keep their stations in the sky	A
Away away The little earth light wanes	D
The moon has drowned herself cold music rings	E
The battering of a thousand Vulcanals	E
Hammers the blood a thousand horsemen fly	A
Belly to air away Now Music sings	E
Harshly like horns of Tartars blown on high	A
II	A
A SHIP in hell marooned	F
He lies under the mast	G
Caked with the sticky unguents of the sun	H
Sluggishly at his wound	I
The rat Pain biting with bloody teeth	J
And broken nails is fed at last	G
The tale is done	H
Let the shell of bleeding flesh remain	K
This crusted finery is nothing worth	L
He flings his body carelessly to Pain	K
Meat for the earth	L
Trumpets of godhood The voice of Music sings	E
Lost in the dark forest riding out	M
Louder and nearer with triumphant wings	E
Music and his eternal cavaliers	E
Now Tristan rises with a mighty shout	M
Nobody hears	E
III	A
O SILENT night dark beach	N
Drowning like lovers each in each	N
Uncharge thy musky boughs unbend	O
Thy mouths of air and give them speech	N
Then like a nest of thieves	E
The golden tattling leaves	E
Will sell their mask for bravoes' love	P
Or cry their fruit to stranger Eves	E
And voices ride	Q
By foam and field	R
Of drowsy lovers lips unsealed	R
Blown to the lazy tide	Q
'With love we put the planets out	M
With kissing drowned the bells	E
And struck the clambering moon to ice	E
Now we shall sleep and hide '	S
I sang with Nonie side by side	Q
Sunk in a drift of tumbled laces	E
Till Music breathed his enormous flute	T
Over our small upturned faces	E
IV	P
IN the pans of straw coned country	U
This river is the solitary traveller	V
Nothing else moves the sky lies empty	U
Birds there are none and cattle not many	U
Now it is sunlight what is the difference	E
Nothing The sun is as white as moonlight	W
Wind has buffeted flat the grasses	E
Long long ago but now there is nothing	C
Wind gone and men gone only the water	V
Stumbling over the stones in silence	E
Nothing but fields with roots gone rotten	H
Paddocks unploughed and clotted marshes	E
Even the wind that stirred them has vanished	X
Only the river remains with its water	V
Shambling over the straw coned country	U
Nothing else moves the sky lies empty	U
Only the river remains with its water	V
And droughts will come	Y
V	U
IN and out the countryfolk the carriages and carnival	Z
Pastry cooks in all directions push to barter their confections	E
Trays of little gilded cakes caramels in painted flakes	E
Marzipan of various makes and macaroons of all complexions	E
Riding on a tide of country faces	E
Up and down the smoke and crying	C
Girls with apple eyes are flying	C
Country boys in costly braces	E
Run with red pneumatic faces	E
Trumpets gleam whistles scream	A2
Organs cough their coloured steam out	M
Dogs are worming sniffing squirming	C
Air balloons and paper moons	E
Roundabouts with curdled tunes	E
Drowned bassoons and waggon jacks	E
Tents like flowers of candle wax	E
'Buy buy buy buy	A
Cotton ties cakes and pies what a size test your eyes hairdyes	E
candy shies all a prize penny tries no lies watch it rise	E
buy buy buy buy '	S
So everybody buys	E
Gently the doctor of magic mutters	E
Opens his puppet stall	B2
Pulls back the painted shutters	E
Ruffles the golden lace	E
Ha The crowd flutters	E
Reddened and sharp and small	B2
O Petroushka's face	E
VI	A
TORCHES and running fire the flagstones drip	C2
Like a black mirror wet from killing Smoke goes up	D2
Clouding the gilded rafter birds and the flying cup	D2
That floats with magic wine to Konchak's lip	C2
Then the Khan claps his beard and harps are brushed	E2
Clear in the darkness dancers' bells far off	P
Blab at their ankles Now from the gold trough	P
We have dipped bowls of mare's milk all is hushed	E2
Suddenly dull bubbling drums uprise grow thicker	V
Split with a scream of metal glazed in the flare	F2
Tartar girls rapidly whirl in storms of animal hair	F2
Spinning in islands of movement quicker and quicker	V
In the middle of the dance smiling at his whim	G2
Khan Konchak rose and left the golden hall	B2
Soon there was silent darkness over all	B2
One of the dancers was sent after him	G2
VII	P
IN the apple country in the apple trees	E
The boughs are bubbling with pink snow	H2
To frost the fields A thousand birds fall crying	C
Sharp and sweet like morning stars in seas	E
Deeper than air A thousand blossoms blow	H2
Drops of gold blood like flowers gone flying	C
Drowning with foam the drowsy girls below	H2
These country girls in hats of straw	I2
Take kissing as a natural law	I2
Put up their cheeks like rosy saucers	E
Gravely on tiptoe waiting	C
They plainly do not know the dangers	E
This practice breeds from courteous strangers	E
Who find on airing their politeness	E
Such local customs captivating	C
As for my part under the trees	E
I found a girl with tawny knees	E
Pretty enough at a hurried view	P
We lay on blossoms glassed with dew	P
I didn't notice her till we kissed	J2
How pleasant a sentimentalist	J2
VIII	P
OPEN It is the moon knocking with fists of air	F2
To break thy doors down it is the lusty moon	K2
More clamorous than hunting cries come tramping	C
With lanterns to uprouse thee drown the fields	E
In drifts of crystal waken the farms with light	J2
And lovers call to buffet the rough smoke	L2
From valleys rising up then like the juice	E
Of Juno's apples the rich Indian glow	H2
Shall cast them out of Time and all be running	C
Dancing and kissing in this headlong breathless moon	K2
This moon pulling at old hinges bawling through keyholes	E
Crying out 'Siegmund Siegmund Siegmund '	S
The door flies open	H
In this house there is anger in the forest night	J2
But love is under my laughter and under my cloak flight	J2
O hast thou not yet woken	H
In night there is bitterness in sorrow tears to weep	M2
But love is under my music and under my cloak sleep	M2
O Lady hast thou spoken	H
In tears there is remembering in memory no release	E
But love is under my kissing and under my cloak peace	E
O hide beneath my cloak	L2
So shall we steal into the deeps of Spring	C
Clasped each to each and swim the merry tide	J2
Rounding the world on the green floods astride	J2
Till drowned in a bubble of flowers too dazed to cling	C
We're thrown up pink and naked castaways	E
On some old beach where Time is put to rout	J2
And the world a buried star not talked about	J2
So shall we daunt the gods conceal their gaze	E
IX	E
ONCE at your words I would have struck to flame	N2
The ground I strode on all the hives of blood	J2
Gone bursting mad but now congealed and thick	O2
Anger the wine chokes me hoods me with stone	B
Clogs and corrodes me with its marish flood	J2
Suddenly as though to metal grown	B
I stand immovable feel strangely sick	O2
And hear your voice far off crying my name	N2
The clouds dissolve Now I can see your face	E
Immense and sweating the room has fallen in	P2
Tiny beside it your face immense and sweating	C
Blurred into mockery at the words that fill you	P
Come then You wish to crush me Let us begin	P2
Since it is obvious I shall have to kill you	P
Have done with useless voices and regretting	C
I want to get it over and leave this place	E
Then like some god on a stone pedestal	Z
Who stirs by night with unfamiliar limbs	E
I turn to an automation upraise	E
Half wondering an arm I find in the air	F2
Clammy with grappled iron Everything swims	E
Fogged in the coughing gas light Blindly I stare	F2
And stab once or twice stabbing in a daze	E
No	H2