Lizard's Cry

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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. @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} }