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Hilda Doolittle

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Until it seems the whole city will be covered with gold pollen shaken from the bell-towers, lilies plundered with the weight of massive bees . . .
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The stallion and his mare, unbridled, with arrow-pattern, are worked on. the blue cloth before the door of religion and inspiration.
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Lovers may come and go, there was the memory of blood, the low call.
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No poetic phantasy but a biological reality, a fact: I am an entity like bird, insect, plant or sea-plant cell I live I am alive.
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I spit honey out of my mouth: nothing is second-best after the sweet of Eros.
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I testify to rainbow feathers, to the span of heaven and walls of colour, the colonnades of jasper.
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Words were her plague and words were her redemption.
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There must be real gods see, the painted gods how fair!
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For you are abstract, making no mistake, slurring no word in the rhythm you make, the poem, writ in the air.
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Sing and your hell is heaven, your heaven less hell.
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Not God with wine, nor death, nor hate for a cry, but God with a song
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In my garden the winds have beaten the ripe lilies in my garden, the salt has wilted the first flakes of young narcissus.
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War is a fevered god who takes alike maiden and king and clod.
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Luminous, unfearful high-priestesses, our fervour shall banish all evil.
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Light threatens, is active, is gone, so it is with a song.
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Take what the old-church found in Mithra's tomb, candle and script and bell, take what the new-church spat upon and broke and shattered.
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Could beauty be beaten out, O youth the cities have sent to strike at each other's strength, it is you who have kept her alight.
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For this beauty, beauty without strength, chokes out life.
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Long hours trail in their purple and long years are lost in just this moment while our souls are near, our mouths separate.
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My eye-balls are glass, my limbs marble, my face fixed in its marble mask.
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