Prince Rupert Awakes
Farewell the temple master's bells
His kiosk and his
black worm seed
Courtship solely of his word
With Eden guaranteed.
For
now Prince Rupert's tears of glass
Make saffron sabbath eyelids bleed
Scar
the sacred tablet of wax
On which the Lizards feed.
Wake your reason's
hollow vote
Wear your blizzard season coat
Burn a bridge and burn a
boat
Stake a Lizard by the throat.
Go Polonius or kneel
The reapers
name their harvest dawn
All your tarnished devil's spoons
Will rust
beneath our corn.
Now bears Prince Rupert's garden roam
Across his rain
tree shaded lawn
Lizard bones become the clay -
And there a Swan is
born
Wake your reasons' hollow vote
Wear your blizzard season
coat
Burn a bridge and burn a boat
Stake a Lizard by the
throat.
Gone soon Piepowder's moss-weed court
Round which upholstered
Lizards sold
Visions to their leaden flock
Of rainbows' ends and
gold.
Now tales Prince Rupert's peacock brings
Of walls and trumpets
thousand fold
Prophets chained for burning masks
And reels of dream
unrolled . . . . . .
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