SPELT FROM SYBYL'S LEAVES
EARNEST, earthless, equal, attuneable, ' vaulty, voluminous,
... stupendous
Evening strains to be tíme's vást, ' womb-of-all,
home-of-all, hearse-of-all night.
Her fond yellow hornlight wound to the west, ' her wild
hollow hoarlight hung to the height
Waste; her earliest stars, earl-stars, ' stárs principal,
overbend us,
Fíre-féaturing heaven. For earth ' her being
has unbound, her dapple is at an end, as-
tray or aswarm, all throughther, in throngs; ' self ín
self steepèd and páshed -- qúite
Disremembering, dísmémbering ' áll
now. Heart, you round me right
With: Óur évening is over us; óur night
' whélms, whélms, ánd will end us.
Only the beak-leaved boughs dragonish ' damask the tool-smooth
bleak light; black,
Ever so black on it. Óur tale, O óur oracle!
' Lét life, wáned, ah lét life wind
Off hér once skéined stained véined
variety ' upon, áll on twó spools; párt,
pen, páck
Now her áll in twó flocks, twó folds
-- black, white; ' right, wrong; reckon but, reck but, mind
But thése two; wáre of a wórld where
bút these ' twó tell, each off the óther;
of a rack
Where, selfwrung, selfstrung, sheathe- and shelterless,
' thóughts agaínst thoughts ín groans
grínd. |