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I HAVE ENJOYED, by                    
First Line: I have enjoyed you, world
Last Line: And give it again, new-cycled, to the stars!
Alternate Author Name(s): Flagg, Francis


I have enjoyed you, world,
your mountains and your streams,
your chasmed depths and vast and lonely seas;
with feasting eyes, I have beheld your gorgeous dawns
spring scarlet-clad upon the eastern hills
to hurl a flaming comet at the night;
beheld your blazing sunset's molten steel
upon the wine-drenched rocks;
your subtle gleams of color come and go
upon the face of earth;
I have in sensuous joy of beauty plucked
the fragrant blossoms from your breathing breast
and scattered petals lovely to the winds.

And I have loved, as part of you,
this glamorous woman fair,
this amorous flesh
that nourished by your virgin strength
cleaved close to me in vibrant song
of unity which swept the suns
and made of eyes and lips and hair
a paradise....

O world! O world! What do I owe?
This flesh and blood?
Then take it back,
incorporate it with your elements,
and give it again, new-cycled, to the stars!





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