Poems by Themis

Another Sacrifice

Pour the sun-world's brightest wine

Into the deepest holes of night;

Darkness drinks as Titans dine,

With giant mouth and giant might.

The strongest liquors of the skies

Will quench not those immense desires,

Abysmal hungerings that rise

From the primeval raging fires.

They ask another sacrifice:

Not solar wine but blood's the fee;

So Love Divine must pay the price

In mortal body's agony.

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