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FRAGMENTS OF " THE UNICORN "<br />
I will go now ;<br />
prepare our evening meal<br />
And waken my husband, my love once.<br />
[Musing.]<br />
Nubian<br />
The lightning of the heavens<br />
Lifts an apocalypse<br />
The dumb night's lips are scared and wide,<br />
The world is reeling with sound :<br />
Was I deaf before, mute, tied ?<br />
What shakes here from lustre-seeded pomegranates<br />
Not in the great world,<br />
More vast and terrible ?<br />
What is this ecstasy in form,<br />
This lightning<br />
That found the lightning in my blood,<br />
Searing my spirit's lips aghast and naked ?<br />
I am flung in the a<strong>by</strong>ss of days,<br />
And the void is rilled with rushing sound<br />
From pent eternities<br />
I am strewn as the cypher is strewn.<br />
A woman—a soft woman<br />
Our girls have hair<br />
Like heights of night ringing with never-seen larks,<br />
Or blindness dim with dreams :<br />
Here is a yellow tiger gay that blinds your night,<br />
Mane—Mane—Mane !<br />
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