A Dithyramb
See overhead the cloud sails, lowering,
Around its flanks roar eagle-wings.
Stormwards it rushes, fire-sparks showering,
Night thoughts from morning’s realm it brings.
Thought blazes up, so heavy-stupendous,
Curse-frenzy batters the vaults of Aether.
Blood spurts from eyeball, terror-enormous,
Sea-waves spit up at Heaven’s rafters.
The silent Aether, tranquil-tremendous,
Girdles the brow with blazing brands.
Clash of arms. In its womb–Ur-darkness,
Cloud swoops, howling woe to the land.
(Karl Heinrich Marx)
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