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Revelation

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At your mouth, white and milk-warm sphinx,     I taste a strange apocalypse:     Your subtle taper finger-tips     Weave me new heavens, yet, methinks,     I know the wiles and each iynx     That brought me passionate to your lips:     I know you bare as laughter strips     Your charnel beauty; yet my spirit drinks     Pure knowledge from this tainted well,     And now hears voices yet unheard     Within it, and without it sees     That world of which the poets tell     Their vision in the stammered word     Of those that wake from piercing ecstasies.

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"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"

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