Our spirits leaped, hosannas of destruction, Like desert li… - Roy Campbell

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Our spirits leaped, hosannas of destruction,
Like desert lilies forked with tongues of fire.

Roy Campbell

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Ignatius Royston Dunnachie Campbell, better known as Roy Campbell (2 October 1901 – 23 April 1957) was a South African poet, satirist and translator.

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Translations (like wives) are seldom strictly faithful if they are in the least attractive.

Of all the clever people round me here
I most delight in Me –
Mine is the only voice I care to hear,
And mine the only face I like to see.

I love to see, when leaves depart,
The clear anatomy arrive,
Winter, the paragon of art,
That kills all forms of life and feeling
Save what is pure and will survive.

Our spirits leaped, hosannas of destruction, Like desert lilies forked with tongues of fire. - Roy Campbell

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