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:Live long, O little Lizard of tenacious foot and steadfast eye! | :Live long, O little Lizard of tenacious foot and steadfast eye! | ||
:Your throat vibrating beats to our defeat and victory! | :Your throat vibrating beats to our defeat and victory! | ||
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:Lizard of alert & shining eye | :Lizard of alert & shining eye | ||
:Lizard witness of each private anguish | :Lizard witness of each private anguish | ||
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:whose chirrup warned of weather | :whose chirrup warned of weather | ||
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:Guardian of the ravaged courtyard, | :Guardian of the ravaged courtyard, | ||
:::cry now. | :::cry now. |
Revision as of 03:23, 24 June 2017
Excerpts from the invocation to The Lizard's Cry:
- 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.
- ...
- ↑ @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} }