Waters Shine

The waters shine The waters twilight Shine The eyes of heaven Already Glimmer fast And The bats their wings Spread At last. The waters shine The waters twilight Shine And round and round In stately dance With measured paces Go the shrouds and Ghosts Round and round Afar a little The lake little shines From tremulous star light That drives out eerie bats And eerie cries from sight And sound In those sudden glooms Where nasal echoes distant of Cave and caverns abound. Listen! The owl speaks O for a cipher to break The code of her language Wisdom in the sage Comes in just sheer talk: But Then who cannot be sage If ready to will, to work, to sacrifice? The nightingale herself On hearing the owl Speak Stops her sweet song And leaves it for the Jug-jug of the owl: But ah! those jug-jug Sounds How much they measure If every night your hear And record Then You will have and dig up Treasure upon treasure. Such night Such the world of night Calculate against day Decide if told To chose one O Earth O Mother Earth!