And The Nightingales Were Singing

And the nightingales were singing Do you remember that? The wine was not liquid but like gum And it fell slow and seeping Down the trees it fell. It was mimicking the Milky Way. Where the milk of the stars Was trickling down Drop after dropp of milk Gum like in those giant gums Of immense distances. For the heavens have such tears. And the immense heavens have Immense tears. For immense things propense are To immense things. And then Throughout the night when Zephyr Watching with glistening eyes The summit stars decided To unwind his bag of winds A little – just a little; Then There cascaded in the immensity Of the night blue heavens There cascaded The solemn winds and on the sea The sails swelled. It was centuries ago. But from the Milky Way a Star Was observing film-like Centuries ago before its eyes. Ah! The transposition of time And motion in a ray – it is Just like a film, just like a film It wanders in the silence of the nights. It was an intelligent night. And the moon smiled and shone Even on the seas it shone Silver and white alternating In the ups and downs of the waves Small and introvert: And calm. Ah! Verse and song ah! Verse and song For You I will not exchange this or that: ‘It is your duty, sir, ’ he said ‘Yes, ’ I said, ‘I will but await; First I must sing my song and verse And string till moment come That I string not The lyre the Muse gave and that As regards use is loaned to me: I cannot sir, duty must be, but Tarry yet.’ And the Human smiled for he understood And in him too the Muse entered too As magic spirits in the trees of a wood.