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Fiat lux.(Poem)

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| October 01, 2001 | Crawford, Robert | COPYRIGHT 2001 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

 
   Let there be braziers, holophotal lenses, 
   Polished golden flags, champagne and candles, 
 
   Let rays shine through the rose window of Chartres, 
   Let there be cowslips, myriad splats of rain, 
 
   Trilobites, new parliaments, red neon, 
   Let there be twin-stone rings and mirrorglass 
 
   Skyscrapers, glinting jumbos, Rannoch lochans 
   In which huge skies can touch down in the sun. 
 
   Let there be Muckle Flugga's phallic pharos, 
   Bug-eyed, winking tree-frogs; let there be 
 
   Grand Canyons, fireflies, tapers, tapirs, matches 
   Good and bad, simply to fan the flames. 
 
   Let there be ...

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