Gardeners and Astronomers by Edith Sitwell

Author:Edith Sitwell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2013-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

And all the Furies in our hearts

Beat stripes that mark the prediluvian

Tiger . . . No flood washed away

That furious darkness, striped upon

A heart light as Hell’s day.

Now, naked as the worm, unarmed

As when in our first Hell, the womb,

That shaped us for damnation, we,

The outcast Tree of Bone

On which our Christ is crucified,

Are fleshless as the skeleton

Of Adam, and have known

All deaths, from Adam’s first sin to the resurrection

Of the testifying, the accusing Dead.

The stone we beat upon, O brothers, seals Christ’s Tomb!

The red sea of the heat and heart will change. O, hear the

rolling

Back of that sea! Another Sea rolls on

Across the world. And we from death on death shall

rise again

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