1 | | Time-expired accusation, a tendresse | of news-hounds, a cave of judges, a judgment | confounded, a covenant of fuddled sleep. | Children of Albion now old men and women | compromised by the deeds they signed in Eden | forsaking dearth. | | 2 | | Kemp's Jig was hard labor--London to Norwich. | I saw a man enact it for an hour | his stage about the space of a kitchenette. | Theatrical darkness, sound only, a hish, | a hisp, tissue of little bells. Then--bingo!-- | light! and a gold Albion uprearing, | electric with a static declamation, | a stance-prancer to his motionless fingers' ends. | | 3 | | The dancers, faces oblivious & grave,-- | testing testing | the dancers face oblivion and the grave. | |