Excerpt from "Histoire de Florida"

2 stanzas, about 1 minute
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It must be anecdotal,
sudden sights along the so-called way,
Bunting's advice that David Jones
when he first met him had moved but once
in adult life and then only
to a place across the street.
They were having tea
when abruptly Jones got up,
went to an easel at the far end of the room
whereon a sheet of drawing paper
with, in his immaculate script, a "t",
added an "h" to say,
"I'll have the 'e' by Monday!"
Affections flood me,
love lights light in like eyes...

*

Your two eyes will me
suddenly slay...
Such echoes
of heaven and earth

in mind as if
such a glass through which
seen darkly
such reflected truth.

What words, then,
if you love me,
what beauty
not to be sustained

will separate
finally
dancer
from dance.