Jonah / Christmas 1917

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Jonah, by Aldous Huxley
CHRISTMAS 1917
Printed at the Holywell Press, Oxford.

A cream of phospherescent light
Floats on the wash that to and fro
Slides round his feet—enough to show
Many a pendulous stalactite
Of naked mucus, whorls and wreaths
And huge festoons of mottled tripes,
With smaller palpitating pipes
Through which some yeasty liquor seethes.