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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DAY-STAR, by NORMA JEAN BUNTING
First Line: Twilight is mournful on the hill
Last Line: The finished work is but begun.
First Line: Twilight is mournful on the hill
Last Line: The finished work is but begun.
Twilight is mournful on the hill.
'Tis murmured Saturn squares with Mars,
But who knows any woman's will?
Twilight is mournful. (On the hill
Carnival reigns.) Here, gaunt and ill,
John dreams his dreams. Behind his bars
Twilight is mournful. On the hill
'Tis murmured Saturn squares with Mars...
Herod the gross and -- Philip's wife:
Philip's wife, with a smouldering hate
For a lean fanatic that stirs up strife!
Herod the gross, and Philip's wife,
And little Salome, in love with life!
(A long-lashed smile for a prophet's fate!)
Herod the gross and Philip's wife --
Philip's wife, with a smouldering hate!
Dance on, Salome, where Herod sprawls.
The finished work is but begun --
A tendril that shall break these walls!
Dance on, Salome! Where Herod sprawls,
A death's-head moth, bewildered, falls...
Who runs may read, (but these are none!)
Dance on, Salome. Where Herod sprawls
The finished Work is but begun.
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