Capitolo 44
Which was it the word that you have said?
Anything on clear music that has sung through water. . .
I cannot remember. The storm-drops break on the leaves.
Anything was lost in the obscurity. Someone is dead.
Someone lies in the garden and it is distressed.
You look as the branches they are tossed up in the air,
Flinging their green to the earth!
Rush of clouds of black to devour the stars in the sky,
The fixed moon down as a half shut eye.
The leaves are sprinkled, the birds are blown,
Oaks collapse down in the obscurity,
We race from our windy shades; we am racing alone.
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The moon was darkened: through him it flew
The swift forms tenebrous and grey that he has known,
As a thing of smoke crossed the sky,
The witch! he said. And he felt a whine,
And another came, and another came,
And one, darkly grown red with blood,
Is floating an instant through the moon,
Suspended as a fantastic and dull flame. . .
Earth has veins: they beats to-night,
The long sea of earth they heat under of my feet,
The points of the trees grow redheads and diamond,
The leaves are inflated, I feel them pulsation,
They presses together, they pushes and sigh,
They listens to the great one to feel to whine of bat,
The great red bat with the face of the woman. . .
Expedite! he said. And it walks for rhythm
That anything else other than it trod the dark with him,
Crushed the alive leaves, reached white hands
His/her eyes it is closed, the best to see
The priests with claws, the persons in love with clogs,
The fire-turned on stone, the sarabands.
I am here! she said. The branch that he has broken--
Was it the branch that he/she that you/he/she has spoken?
I am here! she said. The white thigh sparkled
I cool in light of the stars among dark leaves,
The head thrown face back as him it had dreamed,
The mouth of red and shady deep jasper;
And the lifted hands and the breasts of virgin,
Past close to him, and it faded away away.
I am here! she cried. He responded 'the Stay!'
It is laughter it rose, and nearby and far
In conformity with laughter of rose and died. . .