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LEGEND OF THE BEWITCHED NUNNERY, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The nuns kept to their garden all night long
Last Line: To the unseen deliciously delivered.
Subject(s): Nuns


The nuns kept to their garden all night long,
for sudden fear stirred in the sultry cells;
they prayed to the cool God of silver wells,
and through their dreams stars leapt and well-springs flung.

—The morning mill claps loudly. Hounds give tongue.—
And as with timid steps at matin-bells
they slowly moved back to their cubicles,
things started in to change, alluring, wrong.

For altar-piece and image, book and dove
were tangled as in shameless sweet embrace.
Tall tapers breathed sharp fragrances of love.

And lo, before the nuns could flee the place,
they felt themselves unveiled; they swayed and quivered,
to the Unseen deliciously delivered.





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