CAPRICCIO.
I shall have pearls blacker than cavair, Rubies such as a ripejDomegranate bleeds, Gold pale as honey drijjpng from a star, Brought me by slaves like snow and appleseeds. I shall have linen smooth as pigeon’s throats, I shall have purple more than sunset-red, The velvet leap of leopards to my boats, The fragrance of the cedars to my bed. I shall have music stronger than the wind, And sweeter than a Chinese apricot. In gardens like a translucent melon-rind I shall have dreams as sharp as 'bergamot. Before my throning presence, emperors Will stand abashed as troubled children do. I shall not smile though every knee defers, But bid them go, bid them bring night, and you. —Babette Deutsch, in Rhythm us.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3756, 9 March 1926, Page 78
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124CAPRICCIO. Otago Witness, Issue 3756, 9 March 1926, Page 78
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