Wayfarers

That I go out alone to them it seems because they see none with me in the way ignorant that the fabrics of my dreams are less intangible to me than they Ignorant that I have heard and seen Christ break the bondage of his tongue-tied sightlessness have walked with firm-faithed Mary to the stake and kissed the hem of martyred Flora's dress And I in Lichfield have been Chatterton's accessory in suicide have Gaius Marius in Minturnae seen for many hours by Waitemata's tide Burnt Dian's temple down in Otahuhu and slain Herostratus at Papatoe and here in Penrose brought Aeneas through to calm Ausonian lands from bloody Troy.