when god lets my body be | |
From each brave eye shall sprout a tree | |
fruit that dangles therefrom | |
the purpled world will dance upon | |
5 |
Between my lips which did sing |
a rose shall beget the spring | |
that maidens whom passion wastes | |
will lay between their little breasts | |
My strong fingers beneath the snow | |
10 |
Into strenuous birds shall go |
my love walking in the grass | |
their wings will touch with her face | |
and all the while shall my heart be | |
With the bulge and nuzzle of the sea |
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Transcribed and formatted for Internet reading, with addition of line numbers, from the 1923 (Thomas Seltzer, Inc.) hardcover edition of Tulips and Chimneys by E.E. Cummings.