He: "And is it in the moment, collapsed, Revivified when dead, unkillable and lived, That this transport of 'nowhere else to be' Inspires forgotten freedom of the freest mein?" 5 Said She: "Nothing is lost if not forgotten; And in this temple of the chancing and free Nothing is forgotten, nor can be." "Beauty raped by time is nailed to the door." "Again, by the hammer of the mind, batted is 10 The slivered instant into the all-consuming void Giving that void meaning and beauty thus!" The wellspring of the living-dying boy prepared The ocean of void for its infinite waters of song: He: "What survives in the sweet minute unrehearsed?" 15 "Everything of everything that is best. God and all his angels' overwhelming behest Cannot demand what is minute by minute leased." "Life, I have beheld the lakes in which you breathe, And drowned in silver glories of your tongue's breath." 20 Coda: Advice Lean into the earlobe of the aspiring boy And tell him of the investigation Only his whitest, lingering spirit Can undertake and eradicate this world of void. 25 Name the name that's scripted in his brain And let the unleashed Victory behold herself as she must be!
From the collection "Hymns"
Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]
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