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OR three years, diabolus in the scale, He drank ambrosia, All passes, ANANGKE prevails, Came end, at last, to that Arcadia.

He had moved amid her phantasmagoria, Amid her galaxies, NUKTIS AGALMA

Drifted.... drifted precipitate, Asking time to be rid of.... Of his bewilderment; to designate His new found orchid....

To be certain.... certain.... (Amid ærial flowers).. time for arrangements— Drifted on To the final estrangement;

Unable in the supervening blankness To sift TO AGATHON from the chaff Until he found his seive..... Ultimately, his seismograph: