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Harold Hart Crane - RecitativeHarold Hart Crane - Recitative
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Regard the capture here, 0 Janus-faced, As double as the hands that twist this glass. Such eves at search or rest you cannot see; Reciting pain or glee, how can you bear! Twin shadowed halves: the breaking, second holds t, In each the skin alone, and so it is I crust a plate of vibrant mercury Borne cleft to you, and brother in the half. Inquire this much-exacting fragment smile, Its drums and darkest blowing leaves ignore,- Defer though, revocation of the tears That yield attendance to one crucial sign. Look steadily-how the wind feasts and spins The brain`s disk shivered against lust. Then watch While darkness, like an ape`s face, falls away, And gradually white buildings answer day. Let the same nameless gulf beleaguer us- Alike suspend us from atrocious sums Built floor by floor on shafts of steel that grant The plummet heart, like Absalom, no stream. The highest tower,-let her ribs palisade Wrenched gold of Nineveh;-yet leave the tower. The bridge swings over salvage, beyond wharves; A wind abides the ensign of your will . . . In alternating bells have you not heard All hours clapped dense into a single stride? Forgive me for an echo of these things, And let us walk through time with equal pride.
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