And shows us there in awful pantomime

Lust wreathing love with poppies and with ashes,

And Beauty dressing Sin for carnival,

And Peace made drunken with a cup of blood.

It winds as ivy round our listening thoughts

Shutting all sounds away, enclosing us

Within its stifled virid twilight....

Cry out, sing, make noises,

Bacchantes, revellers, clowns!

Bring myriad lamps in clusters, likening grapes