The Prophet

Portrait of D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence 1885–1930

Ah, my darling, when over the purple horizon shall loom The shrouded mother of a new idea, men hide their faces, Cry out and fend her off, as she seeks her procreant groom, Wounding themselves against her, denying her fecund embraces.

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