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Lapis Lazuli

Lapis Lazuli

Pitch like King Billy bomb-balls in
And those that build them again are gay.
Lapis Lazuli
Those Chinamen climb towards, and I
Every discoloration of the stone,
There struts Hamlet, there is Lear,
Camel-back; horse-back, ass-back, mule-back,
Or lofty slope where it still snows
Carries a musical instmment.
One asks for mournful mehttps://read.99csw.comlodies;
Who handled marble as if it were bronze,
On their own feet they came, or On shipboard,
All things fall and are built again,
It cannot grow by an inch or an ounce.
Of poets that are always gay,
Their eyes mid many wrinkles, their eyes,
Their ancient, glittering eyes, are gay.
Are carved in lapis lazuli,
No handiwork of 九*九*藏*書Callimachus,
Yet they, should the last scene be there,
Do not break up their lines to weep.
When sea-wind swept the corner, stands;
Old civilisations put to the sword.
There, on the mountain and the sky,
Thats Ophelia, that Cordelia;
Accomplished fingers begin to play.
A symbol of longevity;
On all the tragic scene they stare.
Of a slender pread.99csw.comalm, stood but a day;
The great stage curtain about to drop,
Aeroplane and Zeppelin will come out.
Tragedy wrought to its uttermost.
Seems a water-course or an avalanche,
I HAVE heard that hysterical women say
And all the drop-scenes drop at once
His long lamp-chimney shaped like the stem
They are sick of the palette and fiddle-bow.
Upon a hundrehttps://read.99csw.comd thousand stages,
That if nothing drastic is done
Gaiety transfiguring all that dread.
All men have aimed at, found and lost;
Made draperies that seemed to rise
Black out; Heaven blazing into the head:
Though Hamlet rambles and Lear rages,
Delight to imagine them seated there;
Every accidental crack or dent,
Though doubtless plum or cherry-branch
The read.99csw.comthird, doubtless a serving-man,
Then they and their wisdom went to rack:
For everybody knows or else should know
If worthy their prominent part in the play,
Two Chinamen, behind them a third,
Until the town lie beaten flat.
Over them flies a long-legged bird,
They know that Hamlet and Lear are gay;
All perform their tragic play,
Sweetens the little half-way house