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Eternally the choking steam goes up	A
From the black pools of seething oil	B
How merry	C
Those little devils are They've stolen the pitchfork	D
From Bel there as he slept Look oh look look	E
They've got at Nero Oh it isn't fair	F
Lord how he squeals Stop it it's well indecent	G
But funny See Bel's waked They'll catch it now	H
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Eternally that stifling reek arises	I
Blotting the dome with smoky terrible towers	J
Black strangling trees whispering obscene things	K
Amongst their branches clutching with maimed hands	L
Or oozing slowly like blind tentacles	M
Up to the gates higher than that heaped brick	N
Man piled to smite the sun And all around	O
Are devils One can laugh but that hunched shape	P
The face one stone like those Assyrian kings	K
One sees in carvings watching men flayed red	Q
Horribly laughable in leaps and writhes	K
That face utterly evil clouded round	O
With evil like a smoke it turns smiles sour	R
And Nero there the flabby cheeks astrain	H
And sweating agony long agony	H
Imperishable unappeasable	B
For ever well it droops the mouth Till I	S
Look up	A
There's one blue patch no smoke dares touch	T
Sky clear ineffable alive with light	U
Always the same	V
Before I never knew	H
Rest and green peace	K
She stands there in the sun	H
It seems so quaint she should have long gold wings	K
I never have got used folded across	K
Her breast or fluttering with fierce pure light	U
Like shaken steel Her crown too Well it's queer	W
And then she never cared much for the harp	X
On earth Here though	Y
She is all peace all quiet	Z
All passionate desires the eloquent thunder	R
Of new glad suns shouting aloud for joy	A2
Over fresh worlds and clean trampling the air	F
Like stooping hawks to the long wind of horns	K
Flung from the bastions of Eternity	H
And she is the low lake drowsy and gentle	B
And good words spoken from the tongues of friends	K
And calmness in the evening and deep thoughts	K
Falling like dreams from the stars' solemn mouths	K
All these	K
They said she was unfaithful once	K
Or I remembered it and so for that	B2
I lie here I suppose Yes so they said	Q
You see she is so troubled looking down	H
Sorrowing deeply for my torments I	S
Of course feel nothing while I see her save	C2
That sometimes when I think the matter out	D2
And what earth people said of us of her	R
It seems as if I must be here in heaven	H
And she	H
Then I grow proud and suddenly	H
There comes a splatter of oil against my skin	H
Hurting this time And I forget my pride	E2
And my face writhes	K
Some day the little ladder	R
Of white words that I build up up to her	R
May fetch me out Meanwhile it isn't bad	F2
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But what a sense of humor God must have	G2

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