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I

Dark against the sky yonder distant line
Lies before us. Trees we see, long the line of trees,
Bending, swaying in the breeze.

II

Bright with flashing light yonder distant line
Runs before us, swiftly runs, swift the river runs,
Winding, flowing o'er the land.

III

Hark! Oh hark! A sound, yonder distant sound
Comes to greet us, singing comes, soft the river's song,
Rippling gently 'neath the trees.

From the white plain where stands the water,
From there we come,
Bereft of eyes, one bears another.
From there we come.
Bereft of limbs, one bears another.
From there we come.
Where healing herbs grow by the waters,
From there we come.
With these your eyes you shall recover.
From there we come.
With these your limbs you shall recover.
From there we come.

From meadows green where ponds are scattered,
From there we come.
Bereft of limbs, one bears another.
From there we come.

I.

The corn comes up, the rain descends,
The corn-plant comes therewith.
The rain descends, the corn comes up,
The child-rain comes therewith.

II.

The corn comes up, the rain descends,
Vegetation comes therewith.
The rain descends, the corn comes up,
The pollen comes therewith.

In Tsegihi,
In the house made of the dawn,
In the house made of the evening twilight,
In the house made of the dark cloud,
In the house made of the he-rain,
In the house made of the dark mist,
In the house made of the she-rain,
In the house made of pollen,
In the house made of grasshoppers,
Where the dark mist curtains the doorway,
The path to which is on the rainbow,
Where the zigzag lightning stands high on top,
Where the he-rain stands high on top,
Oh, male divinity!

I.

At the Red Rock House it grows,
There the giant corn-plant grows,
With ears on either side it grows,
With its ruddy silk it grows,
Ripening in one day it grows,
Greatly multiplying grows.

II.

At Blue Water House it grows,
There the giant squash-vine grows,
With fruit on either side it grows,
With its yellow blossom grows,
Ripening in one night it grows,
Greatly multiplying grows.

I.

In the House of the Red Rock,
There I enter;
Half way in, I am come.
The corn-plants shake.

II.

In the House of Blue Water,
There I enter;
Half way in, I am come.
The plants shake.

THE SOUL OF TIME

T IME'S a circumference
Whereof the segment of our station seems
A long straight line from nothing into naught.
Therefore we say " progress, " " infinity " —
Dull words whose object
Hangs in the air of error and delights
Our boyish minds ahunt for butterflies.
For aspiration studies not the sky
But looks for stars; the victories of faith
Are soldiered none the less with certainties,
And all the multitudinous armies decked

BLINDNESS AND DEAFNESS

[ Enter X , who learns the dispute and says ]

You waste good time.
More philosophic much it were to ask
By speculation or experiment
What midget skims the void of that man
Who being all these together: deaf, dumb, blind,
Yet must within himself, as, sepulchred
'Mid rings of brazen crenellation down
Under tremendous towers, the heart of Cain,
Be alive.

I

I USED to think
The mind essential in the body, even
As stood the body essential in the mind:
Two inseparable things, by nature equal
And similar, and in creation's song
Halving the total scale: it is not so.
Unlike and cross like driftwood sticks they come
Churned in the giddy trough: a chunk of pine,
A slab of rosewood: mangled each on each
With knocks and friction, or in deadly pain
Sheathing each other's splinters: till at last

Scene. The plain of Haimonia. In the centre, a rude stone dwelling, in the door of which stands PROMETHEUS . The voice of PANDORA always as from within. Total obscurity, nothing on the scene being distinguishable .
DEUKALION [crawling in] .
How dark it is, how dark and miserable!
— PYRRHA . Is 't thou, Deukalion?
— DEU. Ah, thy voice! It's I.
My moment's journey seems a dreadful year.
I see nothing — Where? where? is home here?
— PYR. Yes.
Thou soundest surely nearer. How —
— DEU. At last.