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Excerpts from the invocation to "The Lizard's Cry" by Yasmine Gooneratne:
  
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:Live long, O little Lizard of tenacious foot and steadfast eye!
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:Your throat vibrating beats to our defeat and victory!
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:...
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:Lizard of alert & shining eye
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:Lizard witness of each private anguish
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:...
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:Scion of a line of trusted Heralds
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:Enemy of the fly and the malicious spider
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:watchman of evil, ...
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:whose alarm broke the silence...
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:who hung watchful...
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:whose chirrup warned of weather
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:...
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:Guardian of the ravaged courtyard,
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:::cry now.
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:...
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@article{10.2307/40872102,
 
@article{10.2307/40872102,
 
  ISSN = {00915637},
 
  ISSN = {00915637},
  URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/40872102},
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  URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/40872102 },
 
  author = {Yasmine Gooneratne},
 
  author = {Yasmine Gooneratne},
 
  journal = {Journal of South Asian Literature},
 
  journal = {Journal of South Asian Literature},
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  volume = {12},
 
  volume = {12},
 
  year = {1976}
 
  year = {1976}
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[[Category: Poetry]]

Latest revision as of 23:11, 5 December 2020

Excerpts from the invocation to "The Lizard's Cry" by Yasmine Gooneratne:


Live long, O little Lizard of tenacious foot and steadfast eye!
Your throat vibrating beats to our defeat and victory!
...
Lizard of alert & shining eye
Lizard witness of each private anguish
...
Scion of a line of trusted Heralds
Enemy of the fly and the malicious spider
watchman of evil, ...
whose alarm broke the silence...
who hung watchful...
whose chirrup warned of weather
...
Guardian of the ravaged courtyard,
cry now.
...

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  1. Jump up @article{10.2307/40872102, ISSN = {00915637}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/40872102 }, author = {Yasmine Gooneratne}, journal = {Journal of South Asian Literature}, number = {1/2}, pages = {35-50}, publisher = {Asian Studies Center, Michigan State University}, title = {THE LIZARD'S CRY}, volume = {12}, year = {1976} }