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Oh God / That men and women / having undertaken to vanquish one another / should be allowed / to shut themselves up / in hot boxes / and breed / Spirits of prey / ceaselessly / on the watch / in their cruel privacy / Seizing upon occasion / for crippling the personal / to test the law of the craftiest for survival / with that innate will to emerge victorious / present in every human enterprise / until at last the vanquished mate / dies / of modification / The days / of the Penfolds and the Exodi / in their respective roles / drip into years / with that perilous / multiplication of petty shocks / so much advertised / against / by the American manufacturers / of india -- rubber soles / To the Penfolds / Culture has thrown / its bone / of contention / for the passions to chew on / -so that they shall not howl and bite --
Each one is in the right / according to a different school of accepted philosophy / and eventually / they subside / into the pre -- polemical silence / of creation / Under the virginia creeper / creeping over / the Exodus' home / the shocks of / intimate impact / of the instinctive / murderer and pamperer / of Jesus / rattle its sockets / Exodus has nothing but his pockets / to impress / his rabid rose / of the hedges / while for her redress / she can flaunt the whole of England in his foreign face / It would please us / to look upon this face of Exodus / for it is exceeding beautiful / but this means nothing to the undutiful / woman / she being / exceeding -- ly / short sighted / All forms are the same nought to her / only she had gathered from her literature / that men ought to be fair / and as all women / who have not got the world to choose from / marry / in an hallucinatory / conviction / that the best man they can get / will yet / redye his soul in the matrimonial / vats / of constant suasion / to the requisite tint --