i 40-Phæthon’s <br />leash more suns <br />for caravan <br />with your body’s-span <br />more zodiac’s bears <br />than eye unbars <br />show-crabs and goats <br />than telescopes <br />yet must decline <br />in rounded time <br />of 40 suns <br />I, — Phæthon’s! <br /> <br />and suffer this preferment <br />because you pierce dreams <br />because you overhang <br />night’s snarl with body’s-fang <br />see where my blood <br /> streams <br />in the firmament <br /> <br />Experiment, No. 3 (May 1929), 39.<br /><br />Hugh Sykes Davies<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/decline-of-ph-thon/
