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A Maenad of the cycles of desire Around a Light she must not dare to touch, Hastening towards a far-off unknown goal Earth followed the endless journey of the Sun. A mind but half-awake in the swing of the void On the bosom of Inconscience dreamed out life And bore this finite world of thought and deed Across the immobile trance of the Infinite. A vast immutable silence with her ran: Prisoner of speed upon a jewelled wheel, She communed with the mystic heart in Space. Amid the ambiguous stillness of the stars She moved towards some undisclosed event And her rhythm measured the long whirl of Time. In ceaseless motion round the purple rim Day after day sped by like coloured spokes, And through a glamour of shifting hues of air The seasons drew in linked significant dance The symbol pageant of the changing year. Across the burning languor of the soil Paced Summer with his pomp of violent noons And stamped his tyranny of torrid light And the blue seal of a great burnished sky. Next through its fiery swoon or clotted knot Rain-tide burst in upon torn wings of heat, Startled with lightnings air's unquiet drowse, Lashed with life-giving streams the torpid soil, Overcast with flare and sound and storm-winged dark The star-defended doors of heaven's dim sleep, Or from the gold eye of her paramour Covered with packed cloud-veils the earth's brown face. 
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