DYMER
BY CLIVE
HAMILTON
NEW YORK
E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY
Copyright, 1926
By E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
DYMER
“Nine nights I hung upon the Tree,wounded with the spear, as an offering toOdin, myself sacrificed to myself.”—Havamal.
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CONTENTS
| CANTO | PAGE | |
| I. | 1 | |
| II. | 12 | |
| III. | 24 | |
| IV. | 36 | |
| V. | 49 | |
| VI. | 60 | |
| VII. | 73 | |
| VIII. | 85 | |
| IX. | 94 | |
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DYMER
DYMER
CANTO I
1
You stranger, long before your glance can light
Upon these words, time will have washed away
The moment when I first took pen to write,
With all my road before me—yet to-day,
Here, if at all, we meet; the unfashioned clay
Ready to both our hands; both hushed to see
That which is nowhere yet come forth and be.
2
This moment, if you join me, we begin
A partnership where both must toil to hold
The clue that I caught first. We lose or win
Together; if you read, you are enrolled.
And first, a marvel—Who could have foretold
That in the city which men called in scorn
The Perfect City, Dymer could be born?
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