Ancient Lady

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“When man has neither the strength to subdue his underworld powers—which are really the ancient powers of his old, superseded self; nor the wit to placate them with sacrifice and the burnt holocaust; then they come back at him, and destroy him again. Hence every new conquest of life means a “harrowing of Hell.””
—D.H. (David Herbert)

“In Hydaspia, by Howzen,
Lived a lady, Lady Lowzen,
For whom what is was other things.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)