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Arthur Symons - Chimera CalibanArthur Symons - Chimera Caliban
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An ignominious monster and uncouth Who crouches in a Satanic attitude, The naked parody of some vital truth Concealed from that huge howling multitude That whirls forever on the winds and storms And in the silence of the desert brood. This inchoate being the vast night deforms And he is covetous of men`s spilt blood; A creature fashioned of the Nile`s slime and mud That has no thought but to be there alive, Alive under no hawk`s nor night owl`s hood; He has forgotten all but how to strive In vain against the God`s hostility; A Caliban who has not the art to thrive On the mere nothing his feet are fast upon A monstrous stone once hewn in Babylon Half featureless and utterly insane, There where he crouches just held by his feet From falling headlong on the noiseless street; A thing without the atom of a brain To fathom his abominable nudity. Who made him? Some mad monster of a man Whose mind conceived this nightmare, Caliban.
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