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prevails,?Came end, at last, to that Arcadia.
He had moved amid her phantasmagoria,?Amid her galaxies,?NUKTIS AGALMA
Drifted....drifted precipitate,?Asking time to be rid of....?Of his bewilderment; to designate?His new found orchid....
To be certain....certain...?(Amid aerial flowers)..time for arrangements--?Drifted on?To the final estrangement;
Unable in the supervening blankness?To sift TO AGATHON from the chaff?Until he found his seive...?Ultimately, his seismograph:
--Given, that is, his urge?To convey the relation?Of eye-lid and cheek-bone?By verbal manifestation;
To present the series?Of curious heads in medallion--
He had passed, inconscient, full gaze,?The wide-banded irises?And botticellian sprays implied?In their diastasis;
Which an?sthesis, noted a year late,?And weighed, revealed his great affect,?(Orchid), mandate?Of Eros, a retrospect.
. . .
Mouths biting empty air,?The still stone dogs,?Caught in metamorphosis were,?Left him as epilogues.
"THE AGE DEMANDED"
VIDE POEM II.
FOR this agility chance found?Him of all men, unfit?As the red-beaked steeds of?The Cyther?an for a chain-bit.
The glow of porcelain?Brought no reforming sense?To his perception?Of the social inconsequence.
Thus, if her colour?Came against his gaze,?Tempered as if?It were through a perfect glaze
He made no immediate application?Of this to relation of the state?To the individual, the month was more temperate?Because this beauty had been
......
The coral isle, the lion-coloured sand?Burst in upon the porcelain revery:?Impetuous troubling?Of his imagery.?......
Mildness, amid the neo-Neitzschean clatter,?His sense of graduations,?Quite out of place amid?Resistance to current exacerbations
Invitation, mere invitation to perceptivity?Gradually led him to the isolation?Which these presents place?Under a more tolerant, perhaps, examination.
By constant elimination?The manifest universe?Yielded an armour?Against utter consternation,
A Minoan undulation,?Seen, we admit, amid ambrosial circumstances?Strengthened him against?The discouraging doctrine of chances
And his desire for survival,?Faint in the most strenuous moods,?Became an Olympian _apathein_?In the presence of selected perceptions.
A pale gold, in the aforesaid pattern,?The unexpected palms?Destroying, certainly, the artist's urge,?Left him delighted with the imaginary?Audition of the phantasmal sea-surge,
Incapable of the least utterance or composition,?Emendation, conservation of the "better tradition",?Refinement of medium, elimination of superfluities,?August attraction or concentration.
Nothing in brief, but maudlin confession?Irresponse to human aggression,?Amid the precipitation, down-float?Of insubstantial manna?Lifting the faint susurrus?Of his subjective hosannah.
Ultimate affronts to human redundancies;
Non-esteem of self-styled "his betters"?Leading, as he well knew,?To his final?Exclusion from the world of letters.
IV.
SCATTERED Moluccas?Not knowing, day to day,?The first day's end, in the next noon;?The placid water?Unbroken by the Simoon;
Thick foliage?Placid beneath warm suns,?Tawn fore-shores?Washed in the cobalt of oblivions;
Or through dawn-mist?The grey and rose?Of the juridical?Flamingoes;
A consciousness disjunct,?Being but this overblotted?Series?Of intermittences;
Coracle of Pacific voyages,?The unforecasted beach:?Then on an oar?Read this:
"I was?And I no more exist;?Here drifted?An hedonist."
MEDALLION
LUINI in porcelain!?The grand piano?Utters a profane?Protest with her clear soprano.
The sleek head emerges?From the gold-yellow frock?As Anadyomene in the opening?Pages of Reinach.
Honey-red, closing the face-oval?A basket-work of braids which seem as if they were?Spun in King Minos' hall?From metal, or intractable amber;
The face-oval beneath the glaze,?Bright in its suave bounding-line, as?Beneath half-watt rays?The eyes turn topaz.
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