Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, AUTO-DA-FE, by V. C.


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AUTO-DA-FE, by                    
First Line: Go feed the flames your torches lit with wonders / art has won
Last Line: The vine's the soul of music, and they flourished where it grew!
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Victory


Go feed the flames your torches lit with wonders Art has won
From visions sprung from vintages whose tang is of the sun;
Pile on the poems dreamers writ when dawn was in the sky,
For what is born of wine at morn is only fit to die!

To ashes change the images carved by the hands that knew
Both cutting-tool and drinking-cup and ever loved the two;
Feed to the fire the canvases whose beauty came from eyes
That caught the gleam in Burgundy when purple bubbles rise!

Burn column, arch and pinnacle, burn transept, altar, spire,
For wine went to their rearing, and their doom must be the fire!
And music? It must perish, for the master-singers knew
The vine's the soul of music, and they flourished where it grew!





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