Chapter 4

No words to cover:Soft linen, trailing silk of phraseTo deck the pampered song;Fine feathers to the wingFor deft adventuringEcstatic waysAlong.No many-colored coat of precious words!Rather to dareA stark undress,Wear but a crying nakedness,Venture the bright discomfortOf a word that strips—The startled candor of the heartBare on the vehement lips.

No words to cover:Soft linen, trailing silk of phraseTo deck the pampered song;Fine feathers to the wingFor deft adventuringEcstatic waysAlong.No many-colored coat of precious words!Rather to dareA stark undress,Wear but a crying nakedness,Venture the bright discomfortOf a word that strips—The startled candor of the heartBare on the vehement lips.

No words to cover:Soft linen, trailing silk of phraseTo deck the pampered song;Fine feathers to the wingFor deft adventuringEcstatic waysAlong.No many-colored coat of precious words!Rather to dareA stark undress,Wear but a crying nakedness,Venture the bright discomfortOf a word that strips—The startled candor of the heartBare on the vehement lips.

No words to cover:Soft linen, trailing silk of phraseTo deck the pampered song;Fine feathers to the wingFor deft adventuringEcstatic waysAlong.

No words to cover:

Soft linen, trailing silk of phrase

To deck the pampered song;

Fine feathers to the wing

For deft adventuring

Ecstatic ways

Along.

No many-colored coat of precious words!Rather to dareA stark undress,Wear but a crying nakedness,Venture the bright discomfortOf a word that strips—The startled candor of the heartBare on the vehement lips.

No many-colored coat of precious words!

Rather to dare

A stark undress,

Wear but a crying nakedness,

Venture the bright discomfort

Of a word that strips—

The startled candor of the heart

Bare on the vehement lips.


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