Portent of Nicias
Blazing, the brazen orb frenzied with great
Flashing, its flame in crackling blasts of heat.
Fusion follows fission in frantic gait.
Bloated gluttony or the bawdy teet
It slavishly seeks to gulp, whorish trait!
Yet Helios possesses grave powers.
Explosive might combusts sending forth rays,
Its blistr'ng warmth on beasts alone shower
Driving by love sensitive things to rave.
Sun chariot, hot motions like desires
Yet Apollo exists not in solitude,
Goddess Artemis, gleaming most gravely
Beauteous queen of absolute pulchritude
Arises with perfect sobriety
Patron of Cato with stoic brood.
Astral light issues forth distinct and clear
Celestial circuit reflects and beholds
The cosmos, knowing things both far and near.
Her cold light parses secrets and enfolds
All things within, purely, without veneer.
Royal ruler, though kept separated
Like king Turnus slave in lordly hall
Barren sterility pervades holy bed
Lunar body thus glides, fervorless doll
Into corpse like wasteland now has faded.
Fiery desire, astral abstraction
Two heavenly bodies twirling madly
Discordant gods yearning for elation.
Oh that their dissonance resolves gladly!
Finally achieving satisfaction
Yet seldomly arises, wondrously,
Unification of their glorious sphere
By ardor driving orbits tirelessly
Along nature's determined path so clear
Eclipse, manifested gloriously
Unfeeling light imbued by volition
Frantic flares tamed by reason's reigns
Rosy hues radiate in elision
By this rare road disharmony thus wanes
Beauty sweetly sings by integration
Man, may you heed celestial words most wise
That free and mobile union sin deprives.
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