Song of the Broad-Axe

WEAPON shapely， naked， wan1，

Head from the mother's bowels2 drawn3，

Wooded flesh and metal bone， limb only one and lip only one，

Gray-blue leaf by red-heat grown， helve produced from a little

seed sown，

Resting the grass amid and upon，

To be lean'd and to lean on.

Strong shapes and attributes of strong shapes， masculine trades，

sights and sounds，

Long varied4 train of an emblem5， dabs6 of music，

Fingers of the organist skipping staccato over the keys of the

great organ.