"Ye will note that I have but these four left; yet were they sixteen
whenas I got me from Camelot."
Whenas a thousand virgins on this day Spring, sooner than the lark to fetch in May.
Now I remember comrades - Old playmates on new seas -
Whenas we traded orpiment Among the savages.
Now
whenas sacred Light began to dawne In EDEN on the humid Flours, that breathd Thir morning Incense, when all things that breath, From th' Earths great Altar send up silent praise To the Creator, and his Nostrils fill With gratefull Smell, forth came the human pair And joynd thir vocal Worship to the Quire Of Creatures wanting voice, that done, partake The season, prime for sweetest Sents and Aires: Then commune how that day they best may ply Thir growing work: for much thir work outgrew The hands dispatch of two Gardning so wide.
Spine slub Squabble-Speak sub-- statuary-- Sylla/Bled Garjey, auric fin spun key skins --acro pleural petal fugal --thick fat spat fast
whenas crack & hammer--(House 61) The alliterative effect created by the letter "S" in the first six lines prepares the ground for the fierceness and agony that inflicts the subject in producing the words that will "crack & hammer".
As I, exhaled with thy fire-darting beams Have oft driven back the horses of the night,
Whenas they would have haled thee from my sight?
True, But Malta hates me, and in hating me, My life's in danger; and what boots it thee, Poor Barabas, to be the governor,
Whenas thy life shall be at their command?
Is that why Francizka seems to be fudging the truth about her own past, claiming to have lost her family in a World War II bombing raid
whenas the narrator discovers on a trip to Budapestthe building they lived in was never bombed at all?
strange, or monstrous,
whenas they proceed from naturall causes?
"
Whenas in silks my Julia goes, / Then, then (methinks) how sweetly flows / That liquefaction of her clothes.
with UPON JULIA'S CLOTHES
Whenas in silks my Julia goes, Then, then, methinks, how sweetly flows That liquefaction of her clothes.
"
Whenas this our Poet hath bene much traveiled and throughly redd," E.K.