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...goodly cognizance of Guinevere, 
In lieu of this rough beast upon my shield, 
Langued gules, and toothed with grinning savagery.' 

And Arthur, when Sir Balin sought him, said 
'What wilt thou bear?' Balin was bold, and asked 
To bear her own crown-royal upon shield, 
Whereat she smiled and turned her to the King, 
Who answered 'Thou shalt put the crown to use. 
The crown is but the shadow of the King, 
And this a shadow's shadow, let him have it, 
So this will help ...Read more of this...

...g strong fools; and never a whit more wise 
The fourth, who alway rideth armed in black, 
A huge man-beast of boundless savagery. 
He names himself the Night and oftener Death, 
And wears a helmet mounted with a skull, 
And bears a skeleton figured on his arms, 
To show that who may slay or scape the three, 
Slain by himself, shall enter endless night. 
And all these four be fools, but mighty men, 
And therefore am I come for Lancelot.' 

Hereat Sir Gareth called ...Read more of this...

...a daughter 
And named her after your first sweetheart, 
And you, who break your heart, far away, 
In the confusion and savagery of a long war, 
And you who, worn by the bitterness of winter, 
Will soon go south. 
The snowflakes fall almost straight in the brown light 
Past my window, 
And a sparrow finds refuge on my window-ledge. 
This alone comes to me out of the world outside 
As I measure word with word.

VIII

Many things perplex me and leave me troubled, 
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...l fate, 
128 And elemental potencies and pangs, 
129 And beautiful barenesses as yet unseen, 
130 Making the most of savagery of palms, 
131 Of moonlight on the thick, cadaverous bloom 
132 That yuccas breed, and of the panther's tread. 
133 The fabulous and its intrinsic verse 
134 Came like two spirits parlaying, adorned 
135 In radiance from the Atlantic coign, 
136 For Crispin and his quill to catechize. 
137 But they came parlaying of such an earth, 
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...I. THEIR BASIC SAVAGERY

Fat black bucks in a wine-barrel room,
Barrel-house kings, with feet unstable,
Sagged and reeled and pounded on the table, 
A deep rolling bass.
Pounded on the table,
Beat an empty barrel with the handle of a broom,
Hard as they were able,
Boom, boom, BOOM,
With a silk umbrella and the handle of a broom,
Boomlay, boomlay, boomlay, BOOM.
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...
That come from lips unseen, in sunlit room.
So with the spell of all the Powers of Sense
That e'er have swayed the savagery of hot blood
Raying from her whole body beautiful,
She held the eyes and wills of all the crowd.
Then from the numbed hand of him that cut,
The knife dropped down, and the quick fool stole in
And snatched and deftly severed all the withes
Unseen, and Jacques burst forth into the crowd,
And then the mass completed the long breath
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...ground. There is power 
in the name rat, a horror 
that may be private. When I 
was a boy and heir to tales 
of savagery, of sleeping men 
and kids eaten half away before 
they could wake, I came to know 
that horror. I was afraid 
that left alive the animal 
would invade my sleep, grown 
immense now and powerful 
with the need to eat flesh. 
I was wrong. Night after night 
I wake from dreams of a city 
like no other, the bright city 
of beauty I thought I...Read more of this...

...arkness. Plangent, hidden from eyes
Somewhere an `eukaleli' thrills and cries
And stabs with pain the night's brown savagery.
And dark scents whisper; and dim waves creep to me,
Gleam like a woman's hair, stretch out, and rise;
And new stars burn into the ancient skies,
Over the murmurous soft Hawaian sea.

And I recall, lose, grasp, forget again,
And still remember, a tale I have heard, or known,
An empty tale, of idleness and pain,
Of two that loved -- or did no...Read more of this...

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