THE AMBER SPYGLASS
The morning comes, the night decays, the watchmen leave their stations; The grave is burst, the spices shed, the linen wrapped up; The bones of death, the cov'ring clay, the sinews shrunk & dry'd Reviving shake, inspiring move, breathing, awakening, Spring like redeemed captives when their bonds & bars are burst.
Let the slave grinding at the mill run out into the field, Let him look up into the heavens & laugh in the bright air; Let the inchained soul, shut up in darkness and in sighing, Whose face has never seen a smile in thirty weary years, Rise and look out; his chains are loose, his dungeon doors are open; And let his wife and children return from the oppressor's scourge.
They look behind at every step & believe it is a dream, Singing: The Sun has left his blackness & has found a fresher morning, And the fair Moon rejoices in the clear & cloudless night; For Empire is no more, and now the Lion & Wolf shall cease.
-from America: A Prophecy by William Blake O stars, isn't it from you that the lover's desire for the face of his beloved arises? Doesn't his secret insight into her pure features come from the pure constellations?
-from The Third Elegy by Rainer Maria Rilke Fine vapors escape from whatever is doing the living.
The night is cold and delicate and full of angels Pounding down the living. The factories are all lit up, The chime goes unheard.
We are together at last, though far apart.
-from The Ecclesiast by John Ashbery
展开- ONE - THE ENCHANTED SLEEPER-17532 字
- ONE - THE ENCHANTED SLEEPER-26043 字
- TWO - BALTHAMOS AND BARUCH-122128 字
- TWO - BALTHAMOS AND BARUCH-222351 字
- THREE - SCAVENGERS12126 字
- FOUR - AMA AND THE BATS13746 字
- FIVE - THE ADAMANT TOWER17785 字
- SIX - PREEMPTIVE ABSOLUTION20761 字
- SEVEN - MARY MALONE22022 字
- EIGHT - VODKA29287 字
- NINE - UPRIVER17630 字
- TEN - WHEELS22754 字
- ELEVEN - THE DRAGONFLIES28065 字
- TWELVE - THE BREAK18015 字
- THIRTEEN - TIALYS AND SALMAKIA20637 字
- FOURTEEN - KNOW WHAT IT IS24062 字
- FIFTEEN - THE FORGE22621 字
- SIXTEEN - THE INTENTION CRAFT38241 字
- SEVENTEEN - OIL AND LACQUER25927 字
- EIGHTEEN - THE SUBURBS OF THE DEAD28920 字
- NINETEEN - LYRA AND HER DEATH29223 字
- TWENTY - CLIMBING11441 字
- TWENTY-ONE - THE HARPIES29749 字
- TWENTY-TWO - THE WHISPERERS19727 字
- TWENTY-THREE - NO WAY OUT29356 字
- TWENTY-FOUR - MRS. COULTER IN GENEVA24994 字
- TWENTY-FIVE - SAINT-JEAN-LES-EAUX24473 字
- TWENTY-SIX - THE ABYSS21842 字
- TWENTY-SEVEN - THE PLATFORM10439 字
- TWENTY-EIGHT - MIDNIGHT20931 字
- TWENTY-NINE - THE BATTLE ON THE PLAIN16859 字
- THIRTY - THE CLOUDED MOUNTAIN15289 字
- THIRTY-ONE - AUTHORITY’S END27978 字
- THIRTY-TWO - MORNING24677 字
- THIRTY-THREE – MARZIPAN25355 字
- THIRTY-FOUR - THERE IS NOW11453 字
- THIRTY-FIVE - OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY27742 字
- THIRTY-SIX - THE BROKEN ARROW17074 字
- THIRTY-SEVEN - THE DUNES32577 字
- THIRTY-EIGHT - THE BOTANIC GARDEN33723 字