Byzantium
The unpurged images of day recede, the Emperor's drunken soldiery are abed, and night resonance goes out after the great cathedral gong. A superhuman shade is called up, a mouth that has no moisture and no breath, and blood-begotten spirits ride in on the dolphin's back to the smithies where golden handiwork breaks the bitter furies of complexity. Written after T. Sturge Moore objected that the golden bird of the earlier poem was as much a natural thing as anything of flesh.
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- responds to ↑ Sailing to Byzantium
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