<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=373565" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Then Was My Neophyte</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then was my neophyte,<br>Child in white blood bent on its knees<br>Under the bell of rocks,<br>Ducked in the twelve, disciple seas<br>The winder of the water-clocks<br>Calls a green day and night.<br>My sea hermaphrodite,<br>Snail of man in His ship of fires<br>That burn the bitten decks,<br>Knew all His horrible desires<br>The climber of the water sex<br>Calls the green rock of light.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who in these labyrinths,<br>This tidethread and the lane of scales,<br>Twine in a moon-blown shell,<br>Escapes to the flat cities' sails<br>Furled on the fishes' house and hell,<br>Nor falls to His green myths?<br>Stretch the salt photographs,<br>The landscape grief, love in His oils<br>Mirror from man to whale<br>That the green child see like a grail<br>Through veil and fin and fire and coil<br>Time on the canvas paths.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He films my vanity.<br>Shot in the wind, by tilted arcs,<br>Over the water come<br>Children from homes and children's parks<br>Who speak on a finger and thumb,<br>And the masked, headless boy.<br>His reels and mystery<br>The winder of the clockwise scene<br>Wound like a ball of lakes<br>Then threw on that tide-hoisted screen<br>Love's image till my heartbone breaks<br>By a dramatic sea.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who kills my history?<br>The year-hedged row is lame with flint,<br>Blunt scythe and water blade.<br>'Who could snap off the shapeless print<br>From your to-morrow-treading shade<br>With oracle for eye?'<br>Time kills me terribly.<br>'Time shall not murder you,' He said,<br>'Nor the green nought be hurt;<br>Who could hack out your unsucked heart,<br>O green and unborn and undead?'<br>I saw time murder me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Dylan+Thomas">Dylan Thomas</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=373565" data-title="Then Was My Neophyte de Dylan Thomas" data-description="Then was my neophyte, Child in white blood bent on its knees Under the bell of rocks, Ducked in the twelve, disciple seas The winder of the water-clocks Calls a green day and night. My sea hermaphrodite, Snail of man in His ship of fires That burn..."></div> </div> </div>

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