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Humming-bird by D.H. Lawrence
I CAN imagine, in some
otherworld
Primeval-dumb, far back
In that most awful stillness, that only
gasped and hummed,
Humming-birds raced down the avenues.
Before
anything had a soul,
While life was a heave of Matter, half
inanimate,
This little bit chipped off in brilliance
And went whizzing
through the slow, vast, succulent stems.
I believe there were no flowers,
then
In the world where the humming-bird flashed ahead of
creation.
I
believe he pierced the slow vegetable veins with his
long
beak.
Probably he was big
As mosses, and little lizards, they
say were once big.
Probably he was a jabbing, terrifying monster.
We
look at him through the wrong end of the long telescope
of Time,
Luckily
for us.
