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SONGS FOR A JEWESS, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Take the cloak of all my love
Last Line: All that dies shall one day be a phœnix!
Alternate Author Name(s): Goll, Claire
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


I

Take the cloak of all my love
Over your weeping shoulders:
Do not cough! Cover yourself with my warm sobbing!

I shall drive away the scarlet flies of your fever
And here is the brown linen kerchief
Of my gaze, to banish winter.

Your heart is going to find its spring.

II

If I were no more than this cigarette
Humble aroma whence the Orient is born
Three-minute-torch—

What an eternity to live!
Red star lighting your eyes of the dusk
Moth that destroys itself in the blue gas of your eyes
To die, to die where your soul begins:
To be but ashes! Since
All that dies shall one day be a Phœnix!





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