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Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves

Earnest, earthless, equal, attuneable, ' vaulty, voluminous, … stupendous
Evening strains to be tíme’s vást, ‘ womb—of—all, home—of—all, hearse—of—all night.
Her fond yellow hornlight wound to the west, ’ her wild hollow hoarlight hung to the height
Waste; her earliest stars, earl—stars, ‘ stárs principal, overbend us,
Fíre—féaturing heaven. For earth ’ her being has unbound, her dapple is at an end, as—
tray or aswarm, all throughther, in throngs; ' self ín self steedèd and páshed—qúite
Disremembering, dísmémbering ‘ áll now. Heart, you round me right
With: Óur évening is over us; óur night ’ whélms, whélms, ánd will end us.
Only the beak—leaved boughs dragonish ‘ damask the tool—smooth bleak light; black,
Ever so black on it. Óur tale, O óur oracle! ’ Lét life, wáned, ah lét life wind
Off hér once skéined stained véined variety ‘ upon, áll on twó spools; párt, pen, páck
Now her áll in twó flocks, twó folds—black, white; ’ right, wrong; reckon but, reck but, mind
But thése two; wáre of a wórld where bút these ‘ twó tell, each off the óther; of a rack
Where, selfwrung, selfstrung, sheathe—and shelterless, ’ thóughts agaínst thoughts ín groans grínd.

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