ADVICE TO A STREET-PAVEMENT

ADVICE TO A STREET-PAVEMENT

Lacerated grey has bittenInto your shapeless humility.Little episodes of rovingStrew their hieroglyphics on your muteness.Life has given you heavy stainsLike an ointment growing stale.Endless feet tap over youWith a maniac insistence.O unresisting street-pavement,Keep your passive insolenceAt the dwarfs who scorn you with their feet.Only one who lies upon his backCan disregard the stars.

Lacerated grey has bittenInto your shapeless humility.Little episodes of rovingStrew their hieroglyphics on your muteness.Life has given you heavy stainsLike an ointment growing stale.Endless feet tap over youWith a maniac insistence.O unresisting street-pavement,Keep your passive insolenceAt the dwarfs who scorn you with their feet.Only one who lies upon his backCan disregard the stars.

Lacerated grey has bittenInto your shapeless humility.Little episodes of rovingStrew their hieroglyphics on your muteness.Life has given you heavy stainsLike an ointment growing stale.Endless feet tap over youWith a maniac insistence.

Lacerated grey has bitten

Into your shapeless humility.

Little episodes of roving

Strew their hieroglyphics on your muteness.

Life has given you heavy stains

Like an ointment growing stale.

Endless feet tap over you

With a maniac insistence.

O unresisting street-pavement,Keep your passive insolenceAt the dwarfs who scorn you with their feet.Only one who lies upon his backCan disregard the stars.

O unresisting street-pavement,

Keep your passive insolence

At the dwarfs who scorn you with their feet.

Only one who lies upon his back

Can disregard the stars.


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