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The Winged Beetle
The Winged Beetle (1910), PDF p. 92
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A VISION of flushed faces, shining limbs,
The Madness of the music that entrances
All life in its delirium of dances !
The white world glitters in the void, and swims
Through infinite seas of transcendental trances.
Yea ! all the hoarded seed of all my fancies
Bursts in a shower of suns ! The wine-cup brims
And bubbles over ; I drink deep the hymns
Of sorceries, of spells, of necromancies
And all my spirit shudders ; dew bedims
My sightthese girls and their alluring glances !
Their eyes that burn like dawns lascivious lances
Waking all earth to loveto love ! Life skims
The cream of joy. If God could see what man sees,
(Intoxicating Nellies, Mauds, and Nances !)
I see Him leave the sapphirine expanses,
The choir serene and the celestial air
To swoon into their sacramental hair !
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