The very serpents bite their tails; the bees forget to stin… - Nathalia Crane

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The very serpents bite their tails; the bees forget to sting, For a language so celestial setteth up a wondering. And the touch of absent mindedness is more than any line, Since direction counts for nothing when the gods set up a sign.

Nathalia Crane
The Janitor's Boy And Other Poems (1924)

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Nathalia Clara Ruth Crane (11 August 1913 – 22 October 1998) was a poet and novelist who became famous as a child prodigy after the publication of her first book of poetry at age 10. Her poetry was first published in The New York Sun when she was only 9 years old, the paper unaware that she was a child. She later became a professor of English at San Diego State University.

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The gods released a vision on a world forespent and dull; They sent it as a challenge by the sea hawk and the gull. It roused the Norman eagerness, the Albion cliffs turned red: "You fly the wings of logic — can you fly the wings of lead?

Let go the lure The striving to unmake; Behold the truth Whenever heart may ache There is a glory In a great mistake.

I linger on the flathouse roof, the moonlight is divine. But my heart is all aflutter like the washing on the line.

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