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On Ancient Paths
Judge, persona, and poet.
He lies awake, armored
In damascened metal,
The synergist of every past poet,
Sculptor of synclastic,
Below rounded Eileithyria
The syndetic tissues of a ciccatrixed
Brain labor into the night.
Midnight is past; the work undone;
The descent begins;
Ariadne’s thread is lost;
Virgil casts a deaf ear;
The leaves in the Sybyll’s cave
Are scattered; the hounds are barking.
These words yet remain:
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