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Vol. 2 No. 1 - Modernist Magazines Project

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TWO POEMS<br />

CYNRIC MYTTON-DAVIES<br />

LEAVE TRAINS—VICTORIA STATION<br />

The Great Hall of Gehenna was filled with spirits :<br />

Moving shadows, amorphous, patternless,<br />

Passing hither and thither and vanishing<br />

Into dynamic lines of long perspective<br />

Streaming away into the night.<br />

Pools of topaz light hung, nimbus like,<br />

High up in the cube of swimming dusk,<br />

Casting a glow like phosphorescence on the night sea.<br />

They stood, shadows, wrapped in shadow : unexpectedly<br />

A legion of unspeaking, unmoving women,<br />

Faintly discernible : still as death ; heavy with joy :<br />

A congregation of the damned awaiting the doomed.<br />

Somewhere out in the night, dark lanthorned, Hadean,<br />

Acheron's train bore on their cherished shades.<br />

London : 29/47*40.

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