Mandragora/Invocation

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Published in Mandragora (1917)

565684InvocationJohn Cowper Powys

WHO will waken the wind for me?
Who will waken the wind?
The night is loaded with misery;
And like one stricken with leprosy
   The moon has sunk in the sea.
The earth is heavy as if it had sinned;
Like a ghost stands every tree.
   Who will waken the wind for me?
   Who will waken the wind?

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