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Once, when I was a boy

I was summoned by Apollo

serene

To be appenticed to the eternal summer, to follow
to the seree sum er of his eternit

him and be

To follow him and be

A poet, which is to say /he said/

A shepherd of being, making of poetry

The purity of my vigil

moving among the Muses, led by him

mMoving among the constellations and stations

In the radiant summer

chanting radiance of their orchestra.

--& And I followed Apollo,

Rede of the Muses. And I forgot,

so far as one can forget

Pan, the dark power, the power of all and nothing,

// vats/vaticu m, vat

lips, the divinity of pipes and grapes

dimbs dancing and supple
soft and strong

Forget the self Irgotten in the gala

galaxy of the darkness and
of ecstacy

and the dark sleep which is
the earth of energy....

PHOENIX POEM

Once, when I was a boy
Apollo summoned me
Hem renticed me to the pastures of summer
I was to follow his shepherds and his flocks
Through and lucid blue of eternity

I was to be
A poet which is to say,
A shepherd of being, a soldier of consciousness
Moving among the constellations and the stations
As he moved among the Muses, leading them
In the pure chant and enchantment of his radiance

And I followed the God, I forgot
so far as one can forget
Pan the dark power, the energy of all and nothing
and all things which grow and die
are begotten and beget
The divinity of lips, lips are the grapes
limbs dancing and supple
soft and strong as ripening plum and apple
And I knew nothing of it, I forgot what I had known
of the galaxy of the darkness, the night's ecstasy