The Lady of the Pool

At each adytum over
where under the fathering figures rest that do keep us all.
So it's fabled
in Taffy's historias and gests of Brut the Conditor —
romans o' Belins, " Wallons an" Wortipors
aged viriles buried under
that from Lud's clay have ward of us that be his townies —
and certain THIS BOROUGH WERE NEVER FORCED, cap-tin!!
And making to bear
bean-stalks, cherry gardens, tended 'lotments, conservatories and
stews of fish, pent fowl, moo-cows and all manner o' living
stock, such as, like us women, be quickened of kind: so God will.
Strong binders also
to make our loam the surer stereobate for so great a weight
of bonded courses,
so it is said.
Though there's a deal of subsidence hereabouts even so:
gravels, marls, alluviums
here all's alluvial, cap'n, and as unstable as these old annals
that do gravel us all. For, captain:
even immolated kings
be scarce a match for the deep fluvial doings of the mother.
But leastways
best let sleepers lie
and these slumberers
was great captains, cap'n:
tyrannoi come in keels from Old Troy
requiescant .
For, these fabliaux say, of one other such quondam king
rexque futurus.
And you never know, captain
you never know, not with what you might call metaphysical
certainty, captain: our phenomenology is but limited,
captain.
So of these let's say requiescant
till the Sejunction Day!
For should these stir, then would our Engle-Raum in this
Brut's Albion be like to come to some confusion!
You never know, captain:
What's under works up.
I will not say it shall be so
but, captain, rather I would say:
You never know!

At each adytum over
where under the fathering figures rest that do keep us all.
So it's fabled
in Taffy's historias and gests of Brut the Conditor —
romans o' Belins, " Wallons an" Wortipors
aged viriles buried under
that from Lud's clay have ward of us that be his townies —
and certain THIS BOROUGH WERE NEVER FORCED, cap-tin!!
And making to bear
bean-stalks, cherry gardens, tended 'lotments, conservatories and
stews of fish, pent fowl, moo-cows and all manner o' living
stock, such as, like us women, be quickened of kind: so God will.
Strong binders also
to make our loam the surer stereobate for so great a weight
of bonded courses,
so it is said.
Though there's a deal of subsidence hereabouts even so:
gravels, marls, alluviums
here all's alluvial, cap'n, and as unstable as these old annals
that do gravel us all. For, captain:
even immolated kings
be scarce a match for the deep fluvial doings of the mother.
But leastways
best let sleepers lie
and these slumberers
was great captains, cap'n:
tyrannoi come in keels from Old Troy
requiescant .
For, these fabliaux say, of one other such quondam king
rexque futurus.
And you never know, captain
you never know, not with what you might call metaphysical
certainty, captain: our phenomenology is but limited,
captain.
So of these let's say requiescant
till the Sejunction Day!
For should these stir, then would our Engle-Raum in this
Brut's Albion be like to come to some confusion!
You never know, captain:
What's under works up.
I will not say it shall be so
but, captain, rather I would say:
You never know!
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