Hart Crane's
"Emblems of Conduct" (c. 1924)
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Corresponding
Greenberg Lines (c. 1916)
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From
Greenberg Poem:
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By a peninsula the wanderer
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sat and sketched
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The uneven valley graves. While
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the apostle gave
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Alms to the meek the volcano
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burst
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With sulphur and aureate
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rocks . . .
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By a peninsula, the painter
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sat and
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Sketched the uneven valley
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groves.
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The apostle gave alms to the
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Meek. The volcano burst
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In fusive sulphur and
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hurled
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Rocks and ore into the
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air--
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Conduct
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For joy rides in stupendous
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coverings
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For joy hides its stupendous
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coverings
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The Laureate
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Luring the living into spiritual
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gates
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But only to be memories of
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spiritual gate
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Immortality
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Orators follow the universe
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And radio the complete laws
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to the people.
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. . . the orator follows the
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universe
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And refrains the laws of
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the people
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Perusal
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The apostle conveys thought
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through discipline
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. . . the apostle
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Reigns o'er the community
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in conveying
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His thoughtful discipline . . .
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Perusal
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Bowls and cups fill historians
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with adorations,--
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. . . fine stones
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For bowls and cups found
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historians
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Sacred adorations, . . .
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Immortality
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Dull lips commemorating
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spiritual gates.
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But only to be memories of
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spiritual gate
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Immortality
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The wanderer later chose this
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spot of rest
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The wanderer soon chose
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This spot of rest
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Conduct
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Where marble clouds support
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the sea
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The floating marble-like clouds
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The marble walls held the dim
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sky shadows
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Daylight
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Shadowings
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And where was finally borne
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a chosen hero.
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. . . they bore the
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Chosen hero upon their
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shoulders
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Conduct
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By that time summer and smoke
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were past.
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Dolphins still played, arching
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the horizons.
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no corre-
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sponding
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Greenberg
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lines
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But only to build memories of
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spiritual gates.
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But only to be memories of
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spiritual gate
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Immortality
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