dear and disinherited! break the seal
of scarlet wax that darkens my glass jail,
and I shall bring you light and brotherhood!
how long you labored on the fiery hills
among the needful vines! I know it cost
fanatic toil to make me what I am,
and I shall not be thankless or malign:
I take a potent pleasure when I pour
down the gullet of a workingman,
and how much more I relish burial
in his hot belly than in my cold vaults!
Listen to my music after hours,
the hope that quickens in my throbbing heart;
lean on the table with your sleeves rolled up
and honor me: you will know happiness,
for I shall bring a gleam to your wife's eyes,
a glow of power to your son's wan cheeks
and for this athlete flagging in the race
shall be the oil that strengthens wrestlers' limbs.
into you I will flow, ambrosia brewed
from precious seed the eternal sower cast,
so that the poetry born of our love will grow
and blossom like a flower in his sight!'
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