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第3章 Antaeus

When I lie on the ground

I rise flushed as a rose in the morning.

In fights I arrange a fall on the ring

To rub myself with sand

That is operative

As an elixir. I cannot be weaned

Off the earth's long contour, her river-veins.

Down here in my cave,

Girded with root and rock,

I am cradled in the dark that wombed me

And nurtured in every artery

Like a small hillock.

Let each new hero come

Seeking the golden apples and Atlas.

He must wrestle with me before he pass

Into that realm of fame

Among sky-born and royal:

He may well throw me and renew my birth

But let him not plan, lifting me off the earth,

My elevation, my fall.

1966

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