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Page 1 of 11907 · PDF PAGE 18
…, Nights of invincible desire, Things beyond words, beyond the want of them, Beyond the pauses and the ecstasies . . . . Where should my dream get such a diadem Of voiceless thoughts as these ? XIII HESE dreams reform Themselves into a rainbow to the storm Of simple passion ; let me from the string Take many-coloured wing As a swift-thoughted arrow Vertically shot against the sun ! I would you were a sow And these my verses were your squealing farrow That they might suck the milk of your perfection Unto them, that the worlds ear might be won, …
1907 · PDF PAGE 13
…ou lay Just as the Milky Way Lies in the unkenned hollows of the sky. One swarthy ray of red Leapt from your hither eye, And straight my dream began To map that heavenyour eye, Aldeboran ! I launched the magic boat, and early found The Pirates cave and the Enchaunted Ground ; The cedared Lebanon, The Wizards Grot, the well of spice, The Hanging Gardens of great Babylon : All these then did I visit in a trice, And even did confirm the Bible tale By playing Jonah to your Jonahs whale. So, to the stars ! 8 S
1907 · PDF PAGE 14
…And while I smiled In Heaven how safe I am ! Found myself in my little bed asleep Having been butted thither by the Ram. X UT in the dream of you, my starry sweet, It is my earth I lose six times in seven. I have the Freedom of the City of Heaven ; But strange (though fair) are all the stars I meet. The dull familiar and the homely drear Are lost for ever. Being asleep, I fear. Wake ! Let me cut the cable of my mind ! My harbour lies before, and not behind. Dreams are all lies ; those jetty shadows lie When the full moon doth crown the midn…