Life is the Master, the keen and grim destroyer of beauty:

Death is a quiet and deep reliever, where soul upon soul

And wizened and thwarted body on body are loosed from their duty

Of living, and sink in a bottomless, edgeless impalpable hole.

Dead, they can see far above them, as if from the depth of a pit,

Black on the glare small figures that twist and are shrivelled in it.


The Singing Furies

The yellow sky grows vivid as the sun: