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Excerpt from Winged Victory
Which of the prophets have not your fathers killed?Their flesh is dust that blows about your floors,
Their bones the pillars of your splendid doors,
While with their blood the drinking wells are filled. Because they could not bring you consolation,
You made of them the lamps to light your feasts
Or careless flung their bodies to the beasts,
Crowning them with a martyr's coronation. Because they railed upon your petty ways
And marred the happy structure of your dreaming,
You cried a curse upon them for blaspheming
The comfortable God that had your praise. Because they strayed beyond the common mould
And would not use with you the common measure,
You found in their rebellion the pleasure
Of turning human flesh and blood to gold. Yet, be assured, their tongues shall not be stilled.
Their eyes like stars behold you from the sky,
While in the sea and wind their voices cry
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