Spencer Heath Archive

Item 570

Penned in New York on medium-size, 3-ring binder page. Some slight pencil changes in this version, which may be the earliest.

September 20, 1934

EU-SYN-TROPE

Two shadows touch their wings and lo, through both

Surge waves that tremble from the deeps of life —

That waken melodies long sought but known

Only as emptiness for echoes yearns

Yet shudders lest the music be a moan.

 

Two lips are pressed and then like doves descend

Fulfillments. In one moment there are born

Preludes to symphonies that waken powers

And hidden potencies — that vanquish fears,

But wail throughout the intervening hours.

 

S. H.