Will hold them—do you know? His lips were coarse

But his eyes like a prophet’s—seemed to fill

The whole face. And his tongue was never still.

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“He cried: ‘As Dymer broke, we’ll break the chain.

The world is free. They taught you to be chaste

And labour and bear orders and refrain.

Refrain? From what? All’s good enough. We’ll taste

Whatever is. Life murmurs from the waste

Beneath the mind ... who made the reasoning part