[BNP/E3, 31A – 9]

In the lunar lagon

Of the forgotten breeze.

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Mad Fiddler

20-4-1917

✓3 His music strange did fret

     Each heart to wish 'twas free.

4 It was not a melody, yet

     It was not no melody.

The wife remembered the lover

     She had seen but in dreams[1]

5 She pondered her lost life over

     And was unfaithful… in dreams.

As he came he went.

10   They heard him but half‑be.

Then he was quietly blent

     With silence and memory.

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Sleep fell in[2] their laughter

     Their tranced hope ceased to last.

And but a small time after

     They knew not he had passed.

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The old man {…} felt what was

† to foresee was long

And children smiled because

7 They knew they knew that day

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A want, a grief, a power

     To affect with life being life

✓8 Denied their {…} hour

     And in simple thoughts put strife

     {…} and each

Remembered himself.

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Each found he had not {…}

     What his wild youth wished

Each {…}

[9v]

Tuesday (8) = Goblin Dance.

              Mad Fiddler.

              “Fiat lux” (old)

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Wednesday (9): Diverseness

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Thursday (10) Revise 

              Interval

              Loophole

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8.41.13

Friday: Revise

Saturday: Send off

 
[1] dreams /fears\
[2] fell in /left again\