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DUNSTER HOUSE OFFERS NEW AIKEN POEMS

"Priapus and the Pool: by Conrad Alken '11. Dunster House 1922. Printed by Bruce Rogers.

And silence will end, and the bird

'Sing the pure phrase, sweet phrase, clear phrase in the twilight

To fill the blue bell of the world;

And we, who on music so leaflike have drifted together.

Leaflike apart shall be whirled

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'Into what but the beauty of silence, silence forever?'

This is the shape of the tree,

And the flower, and the leaf, and the three pale beautiful pilgrims;

This is what you are to me."

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