Is it possible that She will have me forgiven for ambitions continually crushed,--
that an affluent end will make up for the ages of indigence,--
...
While the red-stained mouths of machine guns ring
Across the infinite expanse of day;
While red or green, before their posturing King,
The massed battalions break and melt away;
...
Reality being too thorny for my great personality.
--I found myself nevertheless at my lady's,
...
On the black gallows, one-armed friend,
The paladins are dancing, dancing
The lean, the devil's paladins
The skeletons of Saladins.
...
It has been found again.
What ? - Eternity.
It is the sea fled away
With the sun.
...
I
On the calm black water where the stars are sleeping
White Ophelia floats like a great lily ;
...
As soon as the idea of the Deluge had subsided,
A hare stopped in the clover and swaying flowerbells,
and said a prayer to the rainbow,
...
O cowards! There she is!
Pile out into the stations!
The sun with its fiery lungs blew clear
...
On a brilliant morning, in a city of lovely people,
A wonderful man and a wonderful woman
Were shouting out loud, in the middle of town:
'Oh, my friends... I wanter her to be queen! '
...
My sad heart slobbers at the poop
my heart covered with tobacco-spit
They spew streams of soup at it
My sad heart drools at the poop
...