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Harold 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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