VII

Frog faces, frog lust, frog bellies in the dust,
till unexpected flame gave you another name:

( there’s the siren wail again, May 15;
by the clock, near 6, that’s 4 by the sun ):

frog faces, frog lust, frog bellies in the dust
of the Last Judgement Day :

when winter-fog is gone, the frogs sit in the sun,
and now you can see strawberry-leaves
on a crown, a lion, a unicorn:

— H.D., from Last Winter, 1950