Bavarian Gentians
Not every man has gentians in his house in soft September, at slow sad Michaelmas, and the speaker asks the dark blue flowers to be torches for him — blue giving off darkness rather than light. He wants them to lead him down the darker and darker stairs of the descent where a bride is a gone-away bride and the god is invisible in his own blue gloom. Left in the notebooks at Bandol and printed after his death in the Last Poems.
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- alludes to ↑ Persephone and Demeter
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