The Travels Of Fedoso

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Title: The Travels of Fedoso

Author: Verderis

The Travels of Fedoso

Part 3

Volume 26

On asphodels he trembling lay;

We cradled him, and one, one, one,

We dipped his bones into our font:

One, one, one, 'til life returned.

Awaking soon, he shied from us.

Awed, he gasped; he mewled and shook,

Curled sinews in a fist and hid

Amidst those finger-planks, his limbs.

We peeled his fruit, his tangy flesh--

Skin yellowed, mottled, moled and mat;

Juice dribbled from his lips; he spat

As we licked dry his stringy pulp.

"What neks are you?" he muttered low While fumbling for his absent sword.

"Not idle sprites," we unisoned,

"But glorifiers of your quest.

"Twin givers we, plus one who takes,

The lost, the ever-there,

the root,

The watchers, weighers, listeners, laborers, Storm-hale mares, sea foals of grace."

"Your words are twisted, free of thought!

Foul witches, three within a cave,

Your supple beauties lie like nets

That camouflage the gaping pit."

"Our words are forthright, noble sir;

Outside our lair, we have observed

Contempt that thrives in mortal men

Distorts the truest principle."

"Where rests my sword?"

"Below, behind... You have no need of steel henceforth."

"I must depart: I've heights to scale, Where sweet-lipped destiny beckons still."

"True, she beckons still, our child, Upon her gleaming apex.

Go--

Hie thee toward the fiery hedge

That purifies the unpure soul."

He stumbled down the muddy sleeve

That links our chamber to his world,

Broke through to daylight... we reclined,

And meditated on his fate.