LYRICS
James Agee
1.
Remember limber thunder in the deaf: the metal tasting air:
Cities like silly medals lay: wind:
Flashed the whole forest pale:
Spasm and blindness blenched and the bunched cloud
Delivered his blue columns.
Remembering thunder: deliberating in the shadow cold: the fuse air:
The paltry metals on that pitiful breast: the wind
Violating the pale forest crest:
Twittering blaze, the hunched cloud
Voided, and slept aloof, the miles
Restored into the sun, the clean sun
Sheened in his scope:
Remembering unlimbering thunder in the deafness and the tinder air:
The pinned and pendant cities: in the woods
A whole year's generations struck one white:
Collaborative, and determinate thunder:
2.
Soft heaven shuts: at length the latest
Plaintiff is silenced and the ample south
Absorbs him unlamenting:
Here, moreover, subdued, the seed
Meditates and shall publish the usual flower:
And he, restored, bouncing on bloodied twig,
Schemes out his spiritual music.
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