Outside the city where the pomegranates grow
I vainly seek from the dogged strains of time,
a moment to hide in, under limbs hanging low,
and by chance, or the devil’s cunning, find
courage, as welling seeds inward and bound,
but bleeding, weeping their intoxicating blood;
ever so rarely, under Heaven’s smile found,
possessed by low creatures, a-wallow in mud.
Then in...
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