Arlo WillDid you ever see an alligatorCome up to the air from the mud,Staring blindly under the full glare of noon?Have you seen the stabled horses at nightTremble and start back at the sight of a lantern?Have you ever walked in darknessWhen an unknown door was open before youAnd you stood, it seemed, in the light of a thousand candlesOf delicate wax?Have you walked with the wind in your earsAnd the sunlight about youAnd found it suddenly shine with an inner splendor?Out of the mud many timesBefore many doors of lightThrough many fields of splendor,Where around your steps a soundless glory scattersLike new-fallen snow,Will you go through earth, O strong of soul,And through unnumbered heavensTo the final flame!
Did you ever see an alligatorCome up to the air from the mud,Staring blindly under the full glare of noon?Have you seen the stabled horses at nightTremble and start back at the sight of a lantern?Have you ever walked in darknessWhen an unknown door was open before youAnd you stood, it seemed, in the light of a thousand candlesOf delicate wax?Have you walked with the wind in your earsAnd the sunlight about youAnd found it suddenly shine with an inner splendor?Out of the mud many timesBefore many doors of lightThrough many fields of splendor,Where around your steps a soundless glory scattersLike new-fallen snow,Will you go through earth, O strong of soul,And through unnumbered heavensTo the final flame!