The Anathemata
The Lady of the Pool (continued)
freshed of the cool water of
the well-spring1
exhaling distillations of the entire flora
and of WOMANKIND
to the man at the wheel.
David Jones notes
1 Cf. the Middle English song beginning ‘Maiden in the mor lay’ which K. Sisam described as a ‘popular snatch’ of the fourteenth century found scribbled on the fly-leaf of Bodley MS Rawlinson D.913.
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