[23 May 2019]
Ah! This room! – this lullaby, this humanly bower,
This tea-kettle wind-chiming room,
Earth-dappled jasmine-freckled flower-speckled womb –
This holy sepulchre, this sacred tower.
This room! – Your beauty is full and earthy and white
And fire: your windows and walls precious-guard
The wakening and the graciousing and the clementing and the softening and the nard
Echo in the hallowed steps of the night.
Here is your shading grove,
Your dusking arbour,
Your sage and clove,
Your blessed ardour,
Your wine and loaf,
Your ship in harbour.
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