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Stephen Vincent Benet - Portrait of a Boy

2014-11-07 17 Dailymotion

After the whipping he crawled into bed, <br />Accepting the harsh fact with no great weeping. <br />How funny uncle's hat had looked striped red! <br />He chuckled silently. The moon came, sweeping <br />A black, frayed rag of tattered cloud before <br />In scorning; very pure and pale she seemed, <br />Flooding his bed with radiance. On the floor <br />Fat motes danced. He sobbed, closed his eyes and dreamed. <br /> <br />Warm sand flowed round him. Blurts of crimson light <br />Splashed the white grains like blood. Past the cave's mouth <br />Shone with a large, fierce splendor, wildly bright, <br />The crooked constellations of the South; <br />Here the Cross swung; and there, affronting Mars, <br />The Centaur stormed aside a froth of stars. <br />Within, great casks, like wattled aldermen, <br />Sighed of enormous feasts, and cloth of gold <br />Glowed on the walls like hot desire. Again, <br />Beside webbed purples from some galleon's hold, <br />A black chest bore the skull and bones in white <br />Above a scrawled "Gunpowder!" By the flames, <br />Decked out in crimson, gemmed with syenite, <br />Hailing their fellows with outrageous names, <br />The pirates sat and diced. Their eyes were moons. <br />"Doubloons!" they said. The words crashed gold. "Doubloons!"<br /><br />Stephen Vincent Benet<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/portrait-of-a-boy/

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