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William Carlos Williams - PostludeWilliam Carlos Williams - Postlude
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Now that I have cooled to you   Let there be gold of tarnished masonry,   Temples soothed by the sun to ruin   That sleep utterly.   Give me hand for the dances,           Ripples at Philae, in and out,   And lips, my Lesbian,   Wall flowers that once were flame.     Your hair is my Carthage   And my arms the bow,           And our words arrows   To shoot the stars   Who from that misty sea   Swarm to destroy us.     But you there beside me—         Oh, how shall I defy you,   Who wound me in the night   With breasts shining   Like Venus and like Mars?   The night that is shouting Jason         When the loud eaves rattle   As with waves above me   Blue at the prow of my desire.
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