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Слушать(AI)The Andante Of Snakes
They weave a slow andante as in sleep,
Scaled yellow, swampy black, plague-spotted white;
With blue and lidless eyes at watch they keep A treachery of silence; infinite Ancestral angers brood in these dull eyes Where the long-lineaged venom of the snake Meditates evil; woven intricacies Of Oriental arabesque awake,
Unfold, expand, contract, and raise and sway Swoln heart-shaped heads, flattened as by a heel,
Erect to suck the sunlight from the day,
And stealthily and gradually reveal Dim cabalistic signs of spots and rings Among their folds of faded tapestry;
Then these fat, foul, unbreathing, moving things Droop back to stagnant immobility.
Arthur Symons
Arthur William Symons (28 February 1865 – 22 January 1945), was a British poet, critic and magazine editor.
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