O Love, dark animal, <br />With your strangeness go <br />Like any freak or clown: <br />Appease tee child in her <br />Because she is alone <br />Many years ago <br />Terrified by a look <br />Which was not meant for her. <br />Brush your heavy fur <br />Against her, long and slow <br />Stare at her like a book, <br />Her interests being such <br />No one can look too much. <br />Tell her how you know <br />Nothing can be taken <br />Which has not been given: <br />For you time is forgiven: <br />Informed by hell and heaven <br />You are not mistaken<br /><br />Delmore Schwartz<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/o-love-sweet-animal/
