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<Text id=PlaColo>
<Author>Plath, Sylvia</Author>
<Title>The Colossus</Title>
<Edition>London: Faber and Faber, 1972</Edition>
<Date>1955-1959</Date>
<body>
<loc><locdoc>PlaColo9</locdoc><milestone n=9>
<div0><div0.title>The Manor Garden</div0.title>
<div1 type=stanza n=1>
<l>The fountains are dry and the roses over.</l>
<l>Incense of death. Your day approaches.</l>
<l>The pears fatten like little buddhas.</l>
<l>A blue mist is dragging the lake.</l>
</div1><div1 type=stanza n=2>
<l>You move through the era of fishes,</l>
<l>The smug centuries of the pig--</l>
<l>Head, toe and finger</l>
<l>Come clear of the shadow. History</l>
</div1><div1 type=stanza n=3>
<l>Nourishes these broken flutings,</l>
<l>These crowns of acanthus,</l>
<l>And the crow settles her garments.</l>
<l>You inherit white heather, a bee's wing,</l>
</div1><div1 type=stanza n=4>
<l>Two suicides, the family wolves,</l>
<l>Hours of blackness. Some hard stars</l>
<l>Already yellow the heavens.</l>
<l>The spider on its own . . .
