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Discordants Preludes for Memnon; or, Preludes to Attitude Priapus and the Pool Senlin; a Biography TetÃ©elestai

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. . . Look! this flesh how it crumbles to dust and is blown!
These bones, how they grind in the granite of frost and are nothing!
This skull, how it yawns for a flicker of time in the darkness,
Yet laughs not and sees not!

Conrad Aiken

Conrad Aiken (1889–1973), U.S. poet, novelist. Tetéelestai (l. 68–71). . .

Modern American Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed. (8th rev. ed., 1962) Harcourt, Brace and Company.

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