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The Sun:
Nimble you move, you are my own
My pliant essence. All alone,
On fire in the passive sky
I burn—a stone, a golden stone.
Together you in double shade
Discover why your limbs were made.
Nimble you move, you are my own
My pliant essence. All alone,
On fire in the passive sky
I burn—a stone, a golden stone.
Together you in double shade
Discover why your limbs were made.
The Sun-child:
I have never done with you
Half the things I want to do.
Link your arms and loosen them,
Pluck and suck a grass's stem.
Touch my breasts with that blue aster,
Kiss me fast—I'll kiss you faster!
Link your arms and loosen them.
I have never done with you
Half the things I want to do.
Link your arms and loosen them,
Pluck and suck a grass's stem.
Touch my breasts with that blue aster,
Kiss me fast—I'll kiss you faster!
Link your arms and loosen them.
Now link your arms like mine together,
Toward me lightly, like a feather,
Dance, Like feathers you'll be blown
Across the level field alone,
And like a brown wing my bare feet
Will skim the meadow till we meet.
Toward me lightly, like a feather,
Dance, Like feathers you'll be blown
Across the level field alone,
And like a brown wing my bare feet
Will skim the meadow till we meet.
The river skips, but we are quicker:
Its little body's slender glisten
Goes down alley-ways of leaves.
Flicker, sun, and river, flicker;
Listen, lover, listen, listen
How the river laughs and grieves. . . .
Its little body's slender glisten
Goes down alley-ways of leaves.
Flicker, sun, and river, flicker;
Listen, lover, listen, listen
How the river laughs and grieves. . . .
I have never done with you
Half the things I want to do.
Leap for me, sweetheart, reach and try
To catch me, sweetheart; kiss and cry
After me, sweetheart, darting by.
Half the things I want to do.
Leap for me, sweetheart, reach and try
To catch me, sweetheart; kiss and cry
After me, sweetheart, darting by.
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