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turn * while in your turning become * as One . . . as Another to my meek behest : as * ages * as to purify or profligate this deep wine * in its incense delicate . . . a jewel in reeds : we will lay them down here as a light which in * your image lives . . . this pale wall this wing * which turning marks its dervish devil-arc . . . as the sun is * my beginning * is my debt to Time : agèd counter -point . . . while the birds fly up -wards * leaving their soulless shadows here * to search some other sense : some other * clutch to calcified core : some other * brilliant blue

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