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<p align=right style="text-align:center; margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><b>
<font size="4">Jules
Supervielle</font></b></p>

<p style="margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p style="margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0">JULES SUPERVIELLE
is a French poet and a modern French poet. He belongs to this century and died
only a few years ago. Although he wrote in French, he came of a Spanish
colonist family settled in <st1:place>South America</st1:place> (<st1:City><st1:place>Montevideo</st1:place></st1:City>).
He came to <st1:country-region><st1:place>France</st1:place></st1:country-region>
early in life and was educated there. He lived in <st1:country-region><st1:place>France</st1:place></st1:country-region>
but maintained his relation with his mother-country.</p>

<p style="text-indent:11.5pt; margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0">His poetry is very characteristic and adds almost a new
vein to the spirit and manner of French poetry. He has bypassed the rational
and emotional tradition of his adopted country, brought in a mystic way of
vision characteristic of the East. This mysticism is not however the normal
spiritual way but a kind of oblique sight into what is hidden behind the
appearance. By the oblique way I mean the sideway to enter into the secret of
things, a passage opening through the side. The mystic vision has different
ways of approach<font face="Times New Roman">&#8211;</font> one may look at the thing straight, face to face,
being level with it with a penetrating gaze, piercing a direct entry into the
secrets behind. This frontal gaze is also the normal human way of knowing and
understanding, the scientific way. It becomes mystic when it penetrates
sufficiently behind and strikes a secret source of another light and sight,
that is, the inner sight of the soul. The normal vision which I said is the
scientist's vision, stops short at a certain distance and so does not possess
the key to the secret knowledge. But an aspiring vision can stretch itself,
drill into the surface obstacle confronting it, and make its contact with the
hidden ray behind. There is also another mystic way, not a gaze inward but a
gaze upward. The human intelligence and the higher brain consciousness seeks a
greater and intenser light, a vaster knowledge and. leaps upward as it were.
There develops a penetrating gaze towards heights up<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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<p style="margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0">and
above, to such a vision the mystery of the spirit slowly reveals itself. That
is Vedantic mysticism. There is a look downward also below the life-formation
and one enters into contact with forces and beings and creatures of another
type, a portion of which is named Hell or Hades in Europe, and in India Patal
and <i>rasatal. </i>But here we are speaking of another way, not a frontal or
straight movement, but as I said, splitting the side and entering into it,
something like opening the shell of a mother of pearl and finding the pearl
inside. There is a descriptive mystic: the suprasensuous experience is
presented in images and feeling forms. That is the romantic way. There is an
explanatory mysticism: the suprasensuous is set in intellectual or mental
terms, making it somewhat clear to the normal understanding. That is I suppose
classical mysticism. All these are more or less direct ways, straight
approaches to the mystic reality. But the oblique is different 
<font face="Times New Roman">&#8211;</font> it
is a seeking of the mind and an apprehension of the senses that are allusive,
indirect, that move through contraries and negations, that point to a different
direction in order just to suggest the objective aimed at. The Vedantic (and
the Scientific too) is the straight, direct, rectilinear gaze 
<font face="Times New Roman">&#8211;</font> the Vedantin says, May I look at the Sun with a transfixed gaze'<font face="Times New Roman">&#8211;</font>;
whether he looks upward or inward or downward. But the modem mystic is of a
different mould. He has not that clear absolute vision, he has the apprehension
of an aspiring consciousness. His is not religious poetry for that matter, but
it is an aspiration and a yearning to perceive and seize truth and reality that
eludes the senses, but seems to be still there. We shall understand better by
taking a poem of his as example. Thus:</p>

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<p align=center style="text-align:center; margin-right:0in; 
margin-left:.7pt;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0">ALTER
EGO</p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:112.3pt; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:112.3pt; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0">Une souris s'échappe</p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:112.3pt; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0">(Ce n'en était pas une)</p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:112.3pt; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0">Une femme s'éveille</p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:112.3pt; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0">(Comment le savez-vous?)</p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:112.3pt; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0">Et la porte qui grince</p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:112.3pt; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0">(On l'huila ce matin)</p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:112.3pt; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0">Prés du mur de clôture</p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:112.3pt; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0">(Le mur n'existe plus)<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:112.3pt; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
color:black'>Ah! Je ne puis rien direct</span></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:112.3pt; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
color:black'>(Eh bien, vous vous tairez!)</span></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:112.3pt; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
color:black'>Je ne puis pas bouger</span></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:112.3pt; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
color:black'>(Vous marchez sur la route)</span></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:112.3pt; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
color:black'>Où allons nous ainsi?</span></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:112.3pt; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
color:black'>(C'est moi qui le demande)</span></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:112.3pt; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
color:black'>Je suis seul sur la Terre</span></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:112.3pt; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
color:black'>(Je suis là près de vous)</span></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:112.3pt; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
color:black'>Peut-on être si seul</span></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:112.3pt; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
color:black'>(Je le suis plus que vous)</span></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:112.3pt; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
color:black'>Je vois votre visage, </span></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:112.3pt; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
color:black'>(Nul ne m'a jamais vu)</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p style="margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p align=center style="text-align:center; margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>ALTER EGO</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:113.05pt; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>A
mouse runs out</span></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:113.05pt; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>(I t
was not there)</span></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:113.05pt; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>A
woman wakes</span></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:113.05pt; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>(How
do you know?)</span></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:113.05pt; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>And
the squeaking door</span></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:113.05pt; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>(It
was oiled this morning)</span></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:113.05pt; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Near
the cloister wall</span></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:113.05pt; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>(There
is now no wall)</span></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:113.05pt; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Oh! I
can't say a thing</span></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:113.05pt; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>(Well,
now you'll be quiet!)</span></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:113.05pt; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>I
cannot move</span></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:113.05pt; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>(You
are walking along the road)</span></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:113.05pt; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Does
all this get us anywhere?</span></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:113.05pt; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>(I'm
asking you)</span></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:113.05pt; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>I'm
alone on Earth</span></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:113.05pt; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>(I'm
here beside you)</span></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:113.05pt; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Can
one be so alone?</span></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:113.05pt; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>(I'm
more alone than you,</span></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:113.05pt; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>I can
see your face,</span></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:113.05pt; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>No one
has ever seen mine.)</span></p>

<p style="margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:11.5pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p style="margin-bottom:0;text-indent:.15in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>It is a colloquy between &quot;I&quot;
and the &quot;other-I&quot;. The apparent self sees things that appear so
concrete and real but in the &quot;other&quot;, they vanish and become airy
nothings. Still, if things have any reality it is there in that other self.</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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<p style="margin-bottom:0;text-indent:.15in;mso-line-height-alt:
10.8pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0">Or again, take this :<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p align=center style="text-align:center; margin-bottom:0;
text-indent:.15in;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p align=center style="text-align:center; margin-bottom:0;
text-indent:.15in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>LUI
SEUL</span></b></p>

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10.8pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:2in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><i>Si vous touchez sa main
c'est bien sans le savoir,</i></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:2in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><i>Vous vous le rappelez mais
sous un autre nom,</i></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:2in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><i>Au milieu de la nuit au
plus fort du sommeil,</i></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:2in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><i>Vous dites son vrai nom et
le faites asseoir,</i></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:2in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><i>Un jour on frappe et je
devine que c'est lui</i></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:2in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><i>Qui s'en vient pr<span
style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>è</span>s de nous <span
style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>à</span> n'importe quelle heure</i></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:2in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><i>Et vous le regardez avec
un tel oubli</i></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:2in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><i>Qu'il s'en retourne au
loin mais en laissant derri<span style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>è</span>re</i></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:2in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><i>Une porte vivante et pale
comme lui.</i></p>

<p style="margin-bottom:0;text-indent:.15in;mso-line-height-alt:
10.8pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p style="margin-bottom:0;text-indent:.15in;mso-line-height-alt:
10.8pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p align=center style="text-align:center; margin-bottom:0;
mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><b><font size="2">HE ALONE</font></b></p>

<p style="margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:143.3pt; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0">If you touch his hand it is quite
without knowing,</p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:143.3pt; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0">You remember him, but he had another
name.</p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:143.3pt; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0">In the middle of the night, in the
depth of sleep,</p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:143.3pt; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0">You speak his real name and ask him
to be seated.</p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:143.3pt; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:143.3pt; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0">One day there comes a knock and I
guess it is he</p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:143.3pt; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0">Who comes to be beside us at any
time</p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:143.3pt; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0">And you give him such an empty stare</p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:143.3pt; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0">That he turns and goes far away, but
leaving behind</p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:143.3pt; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0">A living door, as pale as he himsel£</p>

<p style="text-indent:11.5pt; margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p style="text-indent:11.5pt; margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0">The Reality is so real that it is always there, and it is
not always altogether intangible, invisible. You touch it often enough but you
do not know that it was the reality. You give it another name: perhaps
imagination, illusion, hallucination.Yes, at the dead of night when you have
forgotten yourself, forgotten the world, nothing exists, you call out his true
name and set him in front - O my soul, 0 my God!</p>

<p style="text-indent:10.1pt; margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0">In the next poem that I quote, the mystery is explained,
that is to say, described a little more at length.</p>

<p style="text-indent:10.1pt; margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p align=center style="text-align:center; margin-bottom:0;
mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><b><font size="2">SAISIR</font></b></p>

<p align=center style="text-align:center; margin-bottom:0;
mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:2in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;font-weight:medium; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><i>Saisir,
saisir le soir, la pomme et la statue,</i><o:p></o:p></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:2in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;font-weight:medium; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><i>Saisir,
l'ombre et le mur et le bout de la rue,</i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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style='font-size:10.0pt;'>Page - 201</span><o:p></o:p></p>

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<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;font-weight:medium; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><i>Saisir
le pied, le cou de la femme couch<span style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>é</span>e</i><o:p></o:p></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;font-weight:medium; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><i>Et puis
ouvrir les mains. Combien d'oiseaux l<span style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>â</span>ch<span
style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>é</span>s,</i><o:p></o:p></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;font-weight:medium; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><i>Combien
d'oiseaux perdus qui deviennent la rue,</i><o:p></o:p></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;font-weight:medium; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><i>L'ombre,
le mur, le soir, la pomme et la statue.</i><o:p></o:p></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;font-weight:medium; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;font-weight:medium; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><i>Mains,
vous vous usurez</i><o:p></o:p></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;font-weight:medium; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><i>A ce
grave jeu-l<span style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>à</span>,</i><o:p></o:p></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;font-weight:medium; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><i>Il
faudra vous couper</i><o:p></o:p></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;font-weight:medium; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><i>Un
jour, vous couper ras.</i><o:p></o:p></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;font-weight:medium; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;font-weight:medium; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><i>Grands
yeux dans ce visage,</i><o:p></o:p></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;font-weight:medium; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><i>Qui
vous a plac<span style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>é</span>s l<span
style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>à</span>?</i><o:p></o:p></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;font-weight:medium; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><i>De quel
vaisseau sans m<span style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>â</span>ts</i><o:p></o:p></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;font-weight:medium; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><i><span
style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>Ê</span>tes-vous l'<span
style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>é</span>quipage?</i><o:p></o:p></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;font-weight:medium; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;font-weight:medium; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><i>Depuis
quel abordage</i><o:p></o:p></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;font-weight:medium; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><i>Attendez-vous
ainsi</i><o:p></o:p></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;font-weight:medium; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><i>Ouverts
toute la nuit?</i><o:p></o:p></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;font-weight:medium; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;font-weight:medium; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><i>Feux
noirs d'un bastingage</i><o:p></o:p></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;font-weight:medium; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><i>Etonn<span
style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>é</span>s mais soumis</i><o:p></o:p></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;font-weight:medium; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><i>A la
loi des orages.</i><o:p></o:p></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;font-weight:medium; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;font-weight:medium; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><i>Prissonniers
de mirages</i><o:p></o:p></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;font-weight:medium; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><i>Quand
sonnera minuit</i><o:p></o:p></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;font-weight:medium; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><i>Baissez
un peu les cils</i><o:p></o:p></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;font-weight:medium; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><i>Pour
reprendre courage.</i><o:p></o:p></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;font-weight:medium; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;font-weight:medium; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><i>* *</i><o:p></o:p></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;font-weight:medium; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;font-weight:medium; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><i>Saisir
quand tout me quitte,</i><o:p></o:p></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;font-weight:medium; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><i>Et avec
quelles mains</i><o:p></o:p></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;font-weight:medium; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><i>Saisir
cette pens<span style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>é</span>e,</i><o:p></o:p></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;font-weight:medium; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><i><span
style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>Ê</span>t avec quelles mains</i><o:p></o:p></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;font-weight:medium; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><i>Saisir
enfin le jour</i><o:p></o:p></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;font-weight:medium; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><i>Par la
peau de son cou,</i><o:p></o:p></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;font-weight:medium; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><i>Le
tenir remuant</i><o:p></o:p></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;font-weight:medium; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><i>Comme
un li<span style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>è</span>vre vivant?</i><o:p></o:p></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;font-weight:medium; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><i>Viens,
sommeil, aide-moi</i><o:p></o:p></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;font-weight:medium; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><i>Tu
saisiras pour moi,</i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;font-weight:medium; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><i>Ce que
je n'ai pu pendre,</i><o:p></o:p></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;font-weight:medium; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><i>Sommeil
aux mains plus grands.</i><o:p></o:p></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;font-weight:medium; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p align=center style="text-align:center; margin-bottom:0;
mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><b><font size="2">TO SEIZE</font></b></p>

<p align=center style="text-align:center; margin-bottom:0;
mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0">Seize, seize the apple and
the statue and the night</p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0">Seize the shadow and the wall
and the end of the street</p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0">Seize the foot, the neck of
the lady in bed</p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0">Then open your hands. How
many birds released</p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0">How many lost birds that turn
into the street,</p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0">The shadow, the wall, the
apple, the statue, and the night?</p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0">Hands, you will wear
yourselves out</p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0">At this dangerous game.</p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0">You will have to be cut</p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0">Off, one day, off at the
wrist.</p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0">* * *</p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0">Great eyes within this face,
who</p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0">Placed you there?</p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0">Of what vessel with masts of
air</p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0">Are you the crew?</p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0">Who boarded your decks,</p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0">That you must ride</p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0">The darkness, open wide?</p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0">Black flares on the bulwarks,</p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0">Astonished, you complied</p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0">With the law of storms and
wrecks.</p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0">Prisoners of a mirage,</p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0">When the strokes of <st1:time
Minute="0" Hour="0">midnight</st1:time> settle,</p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0">Lower your lids a little</p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0">To give yourself courage.</p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0">* * *</p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0">Seize when all else fails me,</p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0">And with what hands<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0">May I seize that thought,</p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0">And with what hands</p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0">Seize, at last, the daylight</p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0">By the scruff of the neck,</p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0">And hold it wriggling</p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0">Like a live hare?</p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0">Come, sleep, and help me,</p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0">You shall seize for me</p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0">What I could not hold,</p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0">Sleep, in your larger hands.</p>

<p style="margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:11.5pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p style="text-indent:12.25pt; margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0">These hands do not grasp that thing, these eyes do not see
that. Try to capture through the senses that tenuous substance, you find it
nowhere. You cannot throttle that reality with your solid fist. Chop off your
hands, pluck out your eyes, then perhaps something will stir in that darkness,
something that exists not but wields a sovereign power. The eyes that see are
not these winkless wide eyes, blank, vacant and dry, before which blackness is
the only reality. One must have something of the bedewed gentle hesitating
human eyes; it is there that the other light condescends to cast its
reflection. The poet says, man with his outward regalia seems to have lost all
trace of the Divine in him, what is still left of God in him is just the
'humidity' of his soul<span style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>¹</span>
<font face="Times New Roman">&#8212;</font>; the 'tears of things' as a great poet says.</p>

<p style="text-indent:12.25pt; margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0">The sense that seizes and captures and makes an object its
own is not any robust material sense, but something winged and vast and
impalpable like your sleep - the other consciousness.</p>

<p style="text-indent:11.5pt; margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0">The poet speaks obliquely but the language he speaks by
itself is straight, clear, simple, limpid. No rhetoric is there, no exaggeration,
no effort at effect; the voice is not raised above the normal speech level.
That is indeed the new modern poetic style. For according to the new
consciousness prose and poetry are not two different orders, the old order
created poetry in heaven, the new poetry wants it upon earth; level with earth,
the common human speech, the spoken tongues give the supreme intrinsic beauty
of poetic cadence. The best poetry embodies the quintessence of prose-rhythm,
its pure spontaneous </p>
<p style="text-indent:11.5pt; margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0">
<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p style="text-indent:11.5pt; margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>¹</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>God says to man: &quot;L'humidit</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>é</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'> de votre </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>â</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>me, c'est ce
qui vous reste de moi.&quot;</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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<p style="margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0">and easy and felicitous movement. In English the hiatus between the poetic
speech and prose is considerable, in French it is not so great, still the two
were kept separate. In England Eliot came to demolish the barrier, in France a
whole company has come up and very significant among them is this foreigner
from Spain who is so obliquely simple and whose Muse has a natural yet haunting
magic of divine things:</p>

<p style="margin:0 0in; line-height:150%"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:11.5pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><i>Elle l<span
style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>è</span>ve les yeux et la brise </i>s' <i>arr<span
style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>ê</span>te</i></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:11.5pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><i>Elle baisse les yeux, la
campagne </i>s'<span style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>é</span><i>tend.</i></p>

<p style="margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:11.5pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1.5in; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0">She lifts her eyes and the breeze is
stilled,</p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1.5in; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0">She lowers her eyes and the
landscape rolls on.</p>

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