[BNP/E3, 49A4 – 22-22a]

(c)

The end of days when Jove is born again

And Ganymede again shall and[1] his feast

Shall see our dual soul from death released

And recreated unto love, joy, pain —

Life — all the beauty and vice and lust,

All the diviner side of flesh, flesh-staged…

And where again we shall return to dust

By the giant race of the God shall from that dust

Our dual statue once again be made[2]. 

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6-5-1915

[22v]

Jakob Burckhardt – “The Culture of the Renaissance in Italy.” (Eng. Tr. 1890)

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P. A. Boeckh: “Public Economy of Athens.” (tr. by A. Lamb, 1857) v. good transl.

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[22ar]

(d)

Thy statue is of thyself and of me

Our dual presence has its unity

In that perfection of body, which my love,

In loving it, did out of mortal life

Raise into godness, set above the strife

Of times, and changing passions far above.

My love for thee is part of what thou wert

And shall  be part of what thy statue will be

Our double presence unified in thee

Shall make to beat many a future heart

Even if the statue be broken open and missed

For its stone-perfect memory

Shall still more perfect, on Times’ shoulders born

Overlook the great morn

From an eternal East.

 
[1] and /pour at\
[2] made /raised\