No More Learning

Your cell takes the place
of our young future strength.

Though they sleep or wake to torment
and wish to displace our old cells--
thin rare gold--
that their larve grow fat--
is our task the less sweet?

Though we wander about,
find no honey of flowers in this waste,
is our task the less sweet--
who recall the old splendour,
await the new beauty of cities?




_The city is peopled
with spirits, not ghosts, O my love:_

_Though they crowded between
and usurped the kiss of my mouth
their breath was your gift,
their beauty, your life. _

[Illustration]

CHISWICK PRESS: CHARLES WHITTINGHAM AND CO. TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE,
LONDON.

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| Transcriber's Notes |
| |
| Page 10: torse _sic_ |
| Page 11: lower case amended to title case ("your shoulders |
| are level" amended to "Your shoulders are level"). |
| Page 14: tassle amended to tassel |
| Page 15: scavanger's amended to scavenger's |
| Page 16: chickory amended to chicory |
| Page 26: fragant amended to fragrant |
| Page 30: lower case amended to title case ("they say there |
| is no hope" amended to "They say there is no hope"). |
| Page 46: larve _sic_ |
| |
| "The City is peopled" did not appear with a title in the |
| original edition. |
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