EARNEST, earthless, equal, attuneable, vaulty, voluminous, stupendous Evening strains to be time's vast, ' womb-of-all, home-of-all, hearse-of-all night. Her fond yellow hornlight wound to the west, ' her wild hollow hoarlight hung to the height Waste; her earliest stars, earl-stars, ' stars principal, overbend us, Fire-featuring heaven. For earth ' her being has unbound, her dapple is at an end, as- tray or aswarm, all throughther, in throngs; ' self in self steeded and pashed -- quite Disremembering, dismembering ' all now. Heart, you round me right With: O Our evening is over us; our night ' whelms, whelms, and will end us. Only the beak-leaved boughs dragonish ' damask the tool-smooth bleak light; black, Ever so black on it. Our tale, O our oracle! ' Let life, waned, ah let life wind Off her once skeined stained veined variety ' upon, all on two spools; part, pen, pack Now her all in two flocks, two folds -- black, white; ' right, wrong; reckon but, reck but, mind But these two; ware of a world where but these ' two tell, each off the other; of a rack Where, selfwrung, selfstrung, sheathe- and shelterless, ' thoughts against thoughts in groans grind. |