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NABOKOV Vladimir - Pale Fire

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By quoting them, old things I made for you.<br />

Dim Gulf was my first book (free verse); Night Rote<br />

Came next; then Hebe's Cup, my final float<br />

In that damp carnival, for now I term<br />

960 Everything "Poems," and no longer squirm.<br />

(But this transparent thingum does require<br />

Some moondrop title. Help me, Will! <strong>Pale</strong> <strong>Fire</strong>.)<br />

Gently the day has passed in a sustained<br />

Low hum of harmony. The brain is drained<br />

And a brown ament, and the noun I meant<br />

To use but did not, dry on the cement.<br />

Maybe my sensual love for the consonne<br />

D'appui, Echo's fey child, is based upon<br />

A feeling of fantastically planned,<br />

970 Richly rhymed life.<br />

I feel I understand<br />

Existence, or at least a minute part<br />

Of my existence, only through my art,<br />

In terms of combinational delight;<br />

And if my private universe scans right,<br />

So does the verse of galaxies divine<br />

Which I suspect is an iambic line.<br />

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