1909 · CLOSE READING
Clouds Without Water
Clouds Without Water (1909), PDF p. 12
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A TERZAIN
King of myself, I labour to espouse
An equal soul. Alas ! how frail I find
The golden light within the gilded house.
Helpless and passionate, and weak of mind !
Lechers and lepers ! — all as ivy cling,
Emasculate the healthy bole they haunt.
Eternity is pregnant ; I shall sing
Now— by my power — a spirit grave and gaunt
Brilliant and selfish, hard and hot, to flaunt
Reared like a flame across the lampless west,
Until by love or laughter we enchaunt,
Compel ye to Kithairon’s thorny crest —
Evoe! Iacche ! consummatum est.
— XxI
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