1907 · CLOSE READING
Rodin in Rime
Rodin in Rime (1907), PDF p. 84
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LES DEUX GENIES
OOD bends and breathes into the rosy shell
Of peace and perfume, love in idleness,
Of pure cold raptures, hymns the mystic stress,
Imagining’s reiterate miracle.
Evil breathes, bending, the reverberate spell,
Conjuring ghosts of the insane address
Of agony lurid in the damned caress,
Exulting tortures of the heart of hell.
The maiden sits and listens, smiles. Her breath
Is easy; over her bowed head fall deep
Glowing cascades of hair; she combs her hair
With subtle ecstasy, electric sweep
Of unimaginable joy; let life and death
Pass; she will comb, and comb, and will not care.
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