 | Enoch Soames: A Memory of the Eighteen-nineties |  |
TO A YOUNG WOMAN
Thou art, who hast not been!
Pale tunes irresolute
And traceries of old sounds
Blown from a rotted flute
Mingle with noise of cymbals rouged with rust,
Nor not strange forms and epicene
Lie bleeding in the dust,
Being wounded with wounds.
For this it is
That in thy counterpart
Of age-long mockeries
Thou hast not been nor art!
Pale tunes irresolute
And traceries of old sounds
Blown from a rotted flute
Mingle with noise of cymbals rouged with rust,
Nor not strange forms and epicene
Lie bleeding in the dust,
Being wounded with wounds.
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That in thy counterpart
Of age-long mockeries
Thou hast not been nor art!
| Enoch Soames: A Memory of the Eighteen-nineties | |