JULIE CARR

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28. Epithalamion: Spenser (echo ring)

   
 

You learned early water to lament.

The woods may, all the woods,

 

A lamp, the world’s lamp,

nymphs the discolored mead

 

Wake now. My love now

how ravish

 

Tell me, did you? But if you

behold

the woods, all the woods,

 

Bring home.

Bring

home-restraint,

Pour out,

Now all ring you ah

 

Now cease.

Now day,

Let no, no let,

who is (calm, quiet,

 

Bound, enlarged


Now lie early before.

the woods shall.

 

bring with you bring

to diaper.

 

is hark. How shrill, how dance

quite?

 

open the

while now all is done,

the woods.

 

 

home-sweat,

home-stay.

pour not, pour out.

when.

 

Now welcome.

now night.

but let

nor treason,

nor false).

as might.

   
 
 

Julie Carr lives in Oakland, California where she is a pursuing a Ph.D. in English Literature from UC Berkeley. Her book MEAD: An Epithalamion is forthcoming from UC Georgia Press in the Fall. Other sections from MEAD are in recent or forthcoming issues of American Letters and Commentary, 3rd Bed, The Canary, Pool, Xantippe, and LIT.