"Evil has no home,
only evil has no home,
not even the home of demoniacal hell.
Hell is the home of souls lost in darkness,
even as heaven is the home of souls lost in light.
And like Persephone or Attis
there are souls that are at home in both homes.
Not like grey Dante, colour-blind
to the scarlet and purple flowers at the doors of hell.
But evil,
evil has no dewlling-place,
the grey vulture, the grey hyena, corpse-eaters
they dwell in the outskirt fringes of nowhere
where the grey twilight of evil sets in.
And men that sit in machines
among spinning wheels, in an apotheosis of wheels
sit in the grey mist of movement whice moves not
and going which goes not
and doing which does not
and being which is not:
that is, they sit and are evil, in evil,
grey evil, which has no path, and shows neither ligth nor dark
and has no home, no home anywhere."
D. H. Lawrence, The Complete Poems, London: Wordsworth Editions, 2002, p. 598.
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