Aubade
Language:
English
Jane, Jane
Tall as a crane,
The morning light creaks down again;
Comb your cockscomb-ragged hair,
Jane, Jane, Come down the stair.
Each dull blunt wooden stalactite
Of rain creaks, hardened by the light,
Sounding like an overtone
From some lonely world unknown.
But the creaking empty light
Will never harden into sight,
Will never penetrate your brain
With overtoncs like the blunt rain,
The light would show
(if it could harden)
Eternities of kitchen garden,
Cockscomb flowers
that none will pluck,
And wooden flowers
that 'gin to cluck.
In the kitchen you must light
Flames as staring, red and white,
As carrots or as turnips, shining
Where the old dawn light lies whining
Cockscomb hair on the cold wind
Hangs limp,
turns the milk's weak mind...
Jane, Jane,
Tall as a crane,
The morning light
creaks down again!
First published in Saturday Westminster Gazette, October 1920
Input by Dan Eggleston
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