Earth
breathes
him like an eternal spring: he is a second sky over
the Earth.
American Poetry - 1922
..
Give me more songs like David's to shake my throat to the pit of the
belly,
And let me roll in the Isaiah thunder....
Ho! the mightiest of our young men was born under a star in the
midwinter....
His name is written on the sun and it is frosted on the moon....
Earth
breathes
him like an eternal spring: he is a second sky over
the Earth.
Mighty race! mighty race!--my flesh, my flesh
Is a cup of song,
Is a well in Asia....
I go about with a dark heart where the Ages sit in a divine
thunder....
My blood is cymbal-clashed and the anklets of the dancers tinkle
there....
Harp and psaltery, harp and psaltery make drunk my spirit.