The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-28

human music box, a poem that writcs
itself, an organ that plays itself.
Melodious a. he Ii at all times, no u Al
most supernormally 30 when ne wakes
up after his winter sleep and ecstasy,
emerres from his hibernaculum or winter
palace and bursts into ode or oracle
Tho mysterious relations between nm
and the eauinoxes, the solstices and the
tides, between his song and other forms
of sap, bud and flower, have long per-
picked men OF science. Why, Tor ex-
ample, does he fall into sleep or trance
about Dec. 81 OF every year? Why does
he awake singing, about March 2l'
It is beyond our powers TO propose
even a plausible working hypothesis
Il is enough for US to know that ne was
I'D again and stirring on or about March
q and that he brought back with him his
most sublime production, Awakening
In the Park" Thus we are enabled TO
be present at or soon after the strange
annual renaissance in Pilduzer:
Across the palpsbie gray auagrnire
Riddled and rank with black threads.
A Bird. unseen and upon an invisible Tree
Raps vocables. breaks them candid. continuous
clear ringing:
Lifts by Its liquid Lever It's successive pry ana
plea,
The cover. piece Of heavy -idded Me. Tits the
cloud cap.
So tina, the Bird. ripping and rapid. tearing on
nuted and fhiled sharps.
Peers In under. dripping upon the vague -coiilng
brain OF Me.
InquiSton edgewise notes. searching and un-
quiet"
The frilled and futed beauty Of these
ripping and rapid notes cannot blind us TO
their deep, mystical meaning. 1--we may
make such a remark OF a work Of poet
as original as original sin, these Orphio
lines seem to be by WALT WHITMAN out
of EMERSON red slayer and slain. DICK
is the Bird, the Tree, the Song. the Lever
and the Pry, the Rapper, the Raped and
the Rapt, the vocable and the Me. Be-
hold now, severed from the combination,
the universal complex, the whole DITHY-
RAMB, the subliminal DITHYRAMB, steer
ing for the Chink and the superliminal
DITHYRAMB, which had been out OF COM
mission since Dec. 81, 1902:
my subconscous numbers cropping. dared and
dimiy feeling. TO the Chink.
Ia ware of vsnly luminous smouohes and blurrs
Of space. glum spparitions OF forms.
Ia spprehendve OF blunt stars pit,ed In feeuiens
abysms.
Hangs blankly Injurious"
Wanly luminous smouches, blunt
stars pitted In feculent abysses! The
Earle OF Pilduzer has the grand style
and all his contemporaries have the
grandmother style. In his lines you feel
the fiery energy, and the world OF sleep
and dreams peers through that Chink.
Meanwhile, the Bird continues 10 sing
for all he is worth:
Out of the Dark sur the Bird nutters 70 me re-
yellles. percussions OF Gala. Qusvers and
triils.
| Until the nottant About-me Is sown win 'mmi'
| nent trembles.
Until the Rift Is fused"
But the Rift ia not yet entirely fused
| II ia about to be. 1t IL time to close the
Chink and chuck the subliminal and
subcouscious into the closet. The 'flot-
tsnt About-me will be shakant," sc
10 sneak, in a minute. II is merely
waiting.
| Until the subconscious IL swallowed too thinl,
dreaming. sieepily framed In Fact.
hantssmagorias. strandlns anon on Time
And then the sentinel Eyes 70 their perceptiv
| porches are rushed.
FIND In the tarnished West . Torch 70 uplea
out OF the void.
lighting the vapors and clouds. the cleaning
| aud shadss
whsreon the whole SKY burns, consumes ther
forever.
Is become In tncs-
| DAvS,
The funeral Pyre OF the Night
No more wanly luminous smouche
and blurrs. The Chink is closed. Tn
sublimipal is submerged again. Tn
whole Sky burns. Spring, Dawn. DITHY
RAMB DICK are alive and awake again
From now until Dec. 81. 1908. Pilduzer
ripping and rapping Bird will hutte
us reveillss. percussions. calls. quaver'
. trills, and lift our cover-pieces Oh wit
, his liquid Lever.