1907 · CLOSE READING
Rodin in Rime
Rodin in Rime (1907), PDF p. 77
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BOUCHES D’ENFER
OOK how it leaps towards the leaper’s curl
Of vivid ecstasy, life loosed at last
From the long-held leash! The headlong, hot-mouthed girl
Upon her sister like a star is cast,
Pallid with death-in-life achieved. O force
Of murder animal in the dead embrace!
The implacable ardour, unavenged remorse
For time’s insulting loss, quickens the pace
Unto its prey that gathers, like a storm
Shrouding invisibly the crater’s rim
Whence fury yet shall wake, and fire inform
The inane basalt and coruscations dim
Of smouldering infamy. Bow down in awe!
It is enough. The Gods are at feast. Withdraw!
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