Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell Wind Poems

• 1. Scotch Rhapsody
  Do not take a bath in Jordan, Gordon,
  On the holy Sabbath, on the peaceful day! '
  Said the huntsman, playing on his old bagpipe,
  Boring to death the pheasant and the snipe â??
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• 2. Heart And Mind
  SAID the Lion to the Lioness-'When you are amber dust,-
  No more a raging fire like the heat of the Sun
  (No liking but all lust)-
  Remember still the flowering of the amber blood and bone,
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• 3. The Web Of Eros
  Within your magic web of hair, lies furled
  The fire and splendour of the ancient world;
  The dire gold of the comet's wind-blown hair;
  The songs that turned to gold the evening air
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• 4. Aubade
  JANE, Jane,
  Tall as a crane,
  The morning light creaks down again;
  
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• 5. The Dancers: (during A Great Battle, 1916)
  The floors are slippery with blood:
  The world gyrates too. God is good
  That while His wind blows out the light
  For those who hourly die for is -
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