On The Waters Glimmering

I On the waters glimmering the red toed nymphs are treading slowly slowly slowly though night be yet beckoning II O to be Beauty and to give of Beauty be a noble task: and Beauty in the night quite equally shines smiling and as splendidly as in the first splendid lights that Dawn with her bring when over sea and shore and land alights III Small songs be these small verses the Lyre strings the Poet Seer sings and chants where there was silence before but soon Silence reigns back on All and no sound rings. IV I saw you go helter-skelter round the corner of the house where alien be all sound and silence silver rides where together Dawn and Dusk abide. V And tingling are the bells to-day I heard them when begun they on the sad air to float continued since yet before noon the bells had ceased and ceased again VI Sundry notes sundry verses sundry sounds all all go round and round terse and lyrical wine of the Soul and breeder of more Inner Souls nobility herself walking VIII Verse I have been friend to you Verse Long have I suffered Long, long, to make you long suffering Soul that with long hours parched suddenly flames alights the Poet Seer the Lyre strings and verse and song begin IX Not in the halls of emperor and king Nor in the sombre majesty that gilt cathedrals adorns No, nor in the palaces of nobility No, no. But on a humble hill the Poet-Seer since early dawn awaking night star-gazing, tired sings. X Notes Notes that come and with them the sprinkling of thoughts random as yet as lyrical: chance and probability their mechanics methodical. XI Sweet silence sweet in the long, long hours where silence silver reigns in the glooms of waning dusks and tombs not marble gilt but humble: to his roots the human turns tired and bent sick of glories and now the brain of cemeteries dream and rest rest blessing of the Earth and body turning towards the Earth from which arose to close! the book to close! the tale and yarn to end at last!