ADVICE TO A POOL
Be a liquid threshold for the dawnAnd let night touch you with his back.The earth-bowl prisoning you, and cold night windsAre only pause and rhythmWithin an endless fantasy,But you, like they, can beA dream from the loins of a dream,And build a golden stairway of escape.O coolly unperturbed pool,Slap your ripples in laughter at men,Who splash you with their lordly hands.Time is but a phantom daggerThat motion lifts to slay itself.
Be a liquid threshold for the dawnAnd let night touch you with his back.The earth-bowl prisoning you, and cold night windsAre only pause and rhythmWithin an endless fantasy,But you, like they, can beA dream from the loins of a dream,And build a golden stairway of escape.O coolly unperturbed pool,Slap your ripples in laughter at men,Who splash you with their lordly hands.Time is but a phantom daggerThat motion lifts to slay itself.
Be a liquid threshold for the dawnAnd let night touch you with his back.The earth-bowl prisoning you, and cold night winds
Be a liquid threshold for the dawn
And let night touch you with his back.
The earth-bowl prisoning you, and cold night winds
Are only pause and rhythmWithin an endless fantasy,But you, like they, can beA dream from the loins of a dream,And build a golden stairway of escape.
Are only pause and rhythm
Within an endless fantasy,
But you, like they, can be
A dream from the loins of a dream,
And build a golden stairway of escape.
O coolly unperturbed pool,Slap your ripples in laughter at men,Who splash you with their lordly hands.Time is but a phantom daggerThat motion lifts to slay itself.
O coolly unperturbed pool,
Slap your ripples in laughter at men,
Who splash you with their lordly hands.
Time is but a phantom dagger
That motion lifts to slay itself.