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FRAGMENTS OF "THE UNICORN"<br />
Out of the lightning<br />
[She thinks to herself.']<br />
In a dizzying cloven wink<br />
This apparition stood up,<br />
Of stricken trunk or beast's spirit,<br />
Stirred <strong>by</strong> Saul's blasphemies ;<br />
So Saul's heart feared, aghast.<br />
But lo, he touched the mischance and life ran<br />
straight<br />
Was it the storm-spirit, storm's pilot,<br />
With all the heaving debris of Noah's sunken days<br />
Dragged on his loins<br />
Law's spirit wandering to us<br />
Through Nature's anarchy,<br />
Wandering towards us when the Titans yet were<br />
young ?<br />
Perhaps Moses and Buddha he met.<br />
[She speeds aloud.]<br />
The shadow of these pomegranate boughs<br />
Is sweet and restful ; sit and ease your feet. Eat<br />
of these figs<br />
You have journeyed long.<br />
All my life, housewife.<br />
Nubian<br />
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