Who are those? I think it's fiendish to have killed so many.For out of Shushan to the ends bird flying highest of the earth Great news runs, with a hidden soundless speed Through secret channels in the folks' dim mind, As water races through smooth sloping gutters.Behind her burned The sky, held by the open kiln of the town In a great breath of fire, yellow and red, From out the festival streets, and myriad links.But all at last, bird flying highest Subdued, becomes self knowing ecstasy, The whole world brightens into Spirit's desire.You gods have given man Desire that too much knows itself and thence He is all confounded by the pleasure of us.Mary bird flying highest.But in the way to this are maladies And anguish and as a perilous bridge Over the uncontrolled demanding world, Virginity, passionate self possessing, Must build itself supreme, unbreakable.Come, wed my spirit and like as the sea, Into the shining spousal ecstasy Of sun and wind, riseth in cloudy gleam, So let the knowing of my flesh be clouds Of fire, bird flying highest mounting up the height of my spirit, Fire clouding with flame the marriage hour Wherein my spirit keeps thy dreadful light Away from Heaven in a bridal kiss, Fire of bodily sense in spiritual glee Held, as fire of water in sunlit air.But even now, Now when I learn I am to gods no more Than to the lust of men, I will not be Despair.Yea, Women, I tell you, not far now is man From hating us, so passionate the joy Of loving us, so mightily drawing down Into the service of his pleasure here All forces of his bird flying highest being.Through paths pine fragrant, where the shaded ground Is strewn with fruits of scarlet husk, I come, As if through maidenhood's uncertainty, Its darkness coloured with strange untried thoughts Hither I come, here to the flowery peak Of this white cliff, high up in golden air, Where glowing earth and sea and divine light Are in mine eyes like ardour, and like love Are in my soul love's glowing gentleness, The sunny grass of meadows and the trees, Towers of dark green flame, and that white town Where from the hearths, a fragrance of burnt wood, Blue purple smoke creeps like a stain of wine Along the paved blue sea yea, all this kindness Lies amid salt immeasurable flowing, The power of the sea, passion of love.I, who have brought thy insult on the King, bird flying highest Will scarce escape his judgment.There's many a lass Will blench to hear the date of it Forty five, Poor souls! Why will the men be fighting so, Running away to find out death, as if It were some tavern full of light and fiddling? And when the doors are shut, what of the girls Who gave themselves away, and still must live? Are not men thoughtless? Katrina.The one bird flying highest in black disgraceful weeds is Toil She sows with never ending gesture all The path before his feet, cursing the way She drags him on with growth of flouting crops, Urchin thistles, and rank flourishing nettles.
