An african Elegy

An African Elegy BY ROBERT DUNCAN In the groves of Africa from their natural oppugn the wildebeest, zebra, the okapi, the elephant, deliver enterd the marvelous. No greater marvelous know I than the minds natural jungle. The wives of the Congo express in that respect their red and the husbands hunt lion with spear and rouge finis-spore on their shields, wear his teeth, claws and hair on ordinary occasions. thither the Swahili plainspoken his doors, let disembarrass thru the trees the tides of lasts ripe and distil from their leaves the terrible red. He is the consort of dreams I have seen, comprehend in the orchestral dark handle the barking of dogs. Death is the dog-headed gay zebra striped and surrounded by silence who walks alike a lion, who is black. It was his voice crying come rear, that Virginia Woolf heard, turnd her fine skull, track and haunted, stopt, pointed into the scent where I see her in willows, in fog, at the river of sound in the trees. I see her prepare at that place to enter Deaths mountains like a face cloth Afghan hound pass into the forest, closed after, let loose in the leaves with more than grace than a hound and more wonder there even with flowers wound in her hair, entirelyowing herself like Ophelia a closing pastoral gesture of love toward the world.

And I see all our tortures absolved in the fog, dispersed in Deaths forests, forgotten. I see all this forgiveness like a hound in the water swim bladder upward and outwards beyond my dark hand. I am waiting this winter for the m ore complete black-out, for the negro armi! es in the eucalyptus, for the cities laid up to(p) and the cold in the love-light, for hounds women and birds to go back to their forests and leave us our solitude. Negroes, negroes, all those princes, holding cups of rhinoceros bone, apply magic with my blood. Where pretty-pretty Marijuana towers taller than the eucalyptus, turns within the lips of night and falls, falls downward, where as giant Kings...If you want to get a enough essay, order it on our website: OrderCustomPaper.com

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