09.08.2014, 14:09
'WRIT IN WATER"
THE teasing wind veers in capricious leaps,
And ere it settles on a steady wake,
Flutters in sudden gusts upon the lake,
Ruffling you there the water into heaps
Of dusky leaves and branches ; then it sweeps
Into a racing cloud or formless snake,
Or shivering hills that soon spread out and break
With soundless crash, showing you little peeps
Of tree, and flower, and hill and grassy glade,
Then all the shuddering surface smoothly clears,
And the blown visions troop away and fade.
So do the consummations of the years
Flicker and fail upon the boundless sea
That holds the secrets of eternity.
THE teasing wind veers in capricious leaps,
And ere it settles on a steady wake,
Flutters in sudden gusts upon the lake,
Ruffling you there the water into heaps
Of dusky leaves and branches ; then it sweeps
Into a racing cloud or formless snake,
Or shivering hills that soon spread out and break
With soundless crash, showing you little peeps
Of tree, and flower, and hill and grassy glade,
Then all the shuddering surface smoothly clears,
And the blown visions troop away and fade.
So do the consummations of the years
Flicker and fail upon the boundless sea
That holds the secrets of eternity.