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标题：To Queen Auset: A Twilight Chant
作者：Askia M. Toure
期刊名称：Essence
印刷版ISSN：0384-8833
出版年度：2005
卷号：August 2005
出版社：Atkinson College Press

To Queen Auset: A Twilight Chant

Askia M. Toure

To Queen Auset: A Twilight Chant

   It must be the crescendo of aural splendor
   to peak on that summit of crystal language, so
   finely tuned, so spectral, invoking choruses
   of immortals in subliminal harmonies
   summoning the Music of the Spheres ...
   So speaks the Primal Mage engaged in lunar
   wisdom haunting dreams of sibylic grandeur.
   This is my music of ancient skies wearing
   Auset's robes: Her legendary, moonlit eyes
   glowing with healing compassion,
   magical joys.
   O Lady of primordial dawns,
   O Queen of indigo
   midnights, the chants of nubian doves thrill
   frenzied populations awaiting a cursory glance
   from Your sacred eyes. And I, drunk on
   the wine of remembrance,
   bow at Your eternal shrine,
   Queen of exaltation, Diva of esoteric realms,
   Mother of immortal mysteries ...

Reprinted from Dawnsong! The Epic Memory of Askia Toure, published by Third World Press, with permission of author (AskiaToure.com).