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On the small marble paved platform	A
On the turret on the head of the tower	B
Watching the night deepen	C
I feel the rock edge of the continent	D
Reel eastward with me below the broad stars	E
I lean on the broad worn stones of the parapet top	F
And the stones and my hands that touch them reel eastward	G
The inland mountains go down and new lights	H
Glow over the sinking east rim of the earth	I
The dark ocean comes up	J
And reddens the western stars with its fog breath	K
And hides them with its mounded darkness	L
	-
The earth was the world and man was its measure but our minds	M
have looked	N
Through the little mock dome of heaven the telescope slotted	O
observatory eyeball there space and multitude came in	P
And the earth is a particle of dust by a sand grain sun lost in a	Q
nameless cove of the shores of a continent	D
Galaxy on galaxy innumerable swirls of innumerable stars endured	R
as it were forever and humanity	S
Came into being its two or three million years are a moment in	P
a moment it will certainly cease out from being	T
And galaxy on galaxy endure after that as it were forever	B
But man is conscious	L
He brings the world to focus in a feeling brain	U
In a net of nerves catches the splendor of things	V
Breaks the somnambulism of nature His distinction perhaps	W
Hardly his advantage To slaver for contemptible pleasures	X
And scream with pain are hardly an advantage	Y
Consciousness The learned astronomer	B
Analyzing the light of most remote star swirls	Z
Has found them or a trick of distance deludes his prism	A2
All at incredible speeds fleeing outward from ours	X
I thought no doubt they are fleeing the contagion	C
Of consciousness that infects this corner of space	B2
	-
For often I have heard the hard rocks I handled	C2
Groan because lichen and time and water dissolve them	D2
And they have to travel down the strange falling scale	E2
Of soil and plants and the flesh of beasts to become	A2
The bodies of men they murmur at their fate	F2
In the hollows of windless nights they'd rather be anything	T
Than human flesh played on by pain and joy	G2
They pray for annihilation sooner but annihilation's	B2
Not in the book yet	H2
	-
So I thought the rumor	B
Of human consciousness has gone abroad in the world	I2
The sane uninfected far outer universes	B2
Flee it in a panic of escape as men flee the plague	J2
Taking a city for look at the fruits of consciousness	B2
As in young Walter Margrave when he'd been sentenced for	K2
murder he was thinking when they brought him back	L2
To the cell in jail	E2
'I've only a moment to arrange my thoughts	B2
I must think quickly I must think clearly	S
And settle the world in my mind before I kick off ' but to feel	M2
the curious eyes of his fellow prisoners	B2
And the wry mouthed guard's and so forth torment him through	N2
the steel bars put his mind in a stupor he could only	S
Sit frowning ostentatiously unafraid 'But I can control my	O2
mind their eyes can't touch my will	P2
One against all What use is will at this end of everything A	Q
kind of nausea is the chief feeling	T
In my stomach and throat but in my head pride I fought	Q2
a good fight and they can't break me alone unbroken	C
Against a hundred and twenty three million people They are	R2
going to kill the best brain perhaps in the world	I2
That might have made such discoveries in science	B2
As would set the world centuries ahead for I had the mind and	S2
the power Boo it's their loss Blind fools	B2
Killing their best ' When his mind forgot the eyes it made rapid	T2
capricious pictures instead of words	B2
But not of the medical school and the laboratories its late intense	B2
interest not at all of his crime glimpses	B2
Of the coast range at home the V of a westward canyon with	U2
the vibrating	T
Blue line of the ocean strung sharp across it that domed hill up	J
the valley two cows like specks on the summit	V2
And a beautiful colored jungle of poison oak at the foot his	B2
sister half naked washing her hair	W2
'My dirty sister ' whose example and her lovers had kept him	X2
chaste by revulsion the reed grown mouth of the river	B
And the sand bar against the stinging splendor of the sea	S
and anguish behind all the pictures	B2
He began to consider his own mind again 'like a wall they	Y2
hang on ' Hang The anguish came forward an actual	Z2
Knife between two heartbeats the organ stopped and then raced	A3
He experimented awhile with his heart	B3
Making in his mind a picture of a man hanged pretending to	N2
himself it was to happen next moment	D
Trying to observe whether the beat suspended 'suspended ' he	S
thought in systole or in diastole	S
The effect soon failed the anguish remained 'Ah my slack	L2
lawyer damn him let slip chance after chance	B2
Scared traitor ' Then broken pictures of the scenes in court the	Q
jury the judge the idlers and not one face	B2
But bleak with hatred 'But I met their eyes one against all '	-
Suddenly his mind became incapable	Z2
Of making pictures or words but still wildly active striking in	P
all directions like a snake in a fire	B
Finding nothing but the fiery element of its own anguish He got	C3
up and felt the guard's eyes and sat down	D3
Turned side face resting his chin on his fist frowning and	S2
trembling He saw clearly in his mind the little	Z2
Adrenal glands perched on the red brown kidneys as if all his	B2
doomed tissues became transparent	D
Pouring in these passions their violent secretion	C
Into his blood stream raising the tension unbearably And the	Q
thyroids tension tension A long course of that	E3
Should work grave changes 'If they tortured a man like a laboratory	S
dog for discovery there'd be value gained but by	O2
process	B2
Of law for vengeance because his glands and his brain have	F3
made him act in another than common manner	B
You incredible breed of asses ' He smiled self consciously in	P
open scorn of the people the guard at the door	K2
To observe that smile 'my God do I care about the turnkey's	B2
opinion 'suddenly his mind again	G3
Was lashing like a burnt snake Then it was torpid for a while	H3
This continued for months	B2
	-
His father had come to visit him he saw the ruinous white haired head	I3
Through two steel wickets under the bluish electric light that	E3
seemed to peel the skin from the face	B2
Walter said cheerfully too loudly 'Hullo You look like a skull '	-
The shaven sunk jaws in answer chewed	J3
Inaudible words Walter with an edge of pleasure thought 'Once	B2
he was stronger than I I used to admire	K3
This poor old man's strength when I was a child ' and said 'Buck	L2
up old fellow it will soon be over Here's nothing	L2
To cry for Do you think I'm afraid to die It's good people that	E3
fear death people with the soft streak	L2
Of goodness in them fear death but I you know am a monster	B
don't you read the papers Caught at last	L3
I fought a hundred and twenty three million people How's	B2
Hazel How's the farm I could get out of this scrape	M3
By playing dementia but I refuse to there's not an alienist living	L2
Could catch me out I'm the king of Spain dying for the world	I2
I've been persecuted since I was born	N3
By a secret sect they stuck pins into me	S
And fed me regular doses of poison for a certain reason Why	O2
do you pretend that you're my father	B
God is Believe me I could get by with it	O3
But I refuse '	-
Old Margrave looked timidly at the two guards	B2
listening and drew his brown tremulous hand	P3
Across his eyes below the white hair 'I thought of going to try	O2
to see the governor Walter '	-
'That's it ' 'Don't hope for anything Walter they tell me that	E3
there's no hope They say that I shan't even	P
Be allowed to see him ' 'By God ' the young man said trembling	L2
'you can if you want to Never believe that lawyer	B
If I d had Dorking but you couldn't afford him Poor men have	F3
no right to breed sons I'd not be here	Q3
If you'd had money to put me through college Tell the governor	B
I know he won't pardon but he can commute the sentence to	N2
life imprisonment Then I can read and study	S
I can help the penitentiary doctor I can do something to help	R3
humanity Tell him it's madness	B2
To throw such a brain as mine into the garbage Don't deny my	O2
guilt but tell him my reasons	B2
I kidnapp	R3

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