b.1886
958 In Me, Past, Present, Future meet
IN me, past, present, future meet
To hold long chiding conference.
My lusts usurp the present tense
And strangle Reason in his seat.
My loves leap through the future’s fence
To dance with dream- enfranchised feet.
In me the cave-man clasps the seer,
And garlanded Apollo goes
Chanting to Abraham’s deaf ear.
In me the tiger sniffs the rose.
Look in my heart, kind friends, and tremble,
Since there your elements assemble.
959 Everyone Sang
EVERYONE suddenly burst out singing;
And I was fill’d with such delight
As prison’d birds must find in
freedom
Winging wildly across the white
Orchards and dark-green fields; on; on; and out of sight.
Everyone’s voice was suddenly lifted,
And beauty came like the setting sun.
My heart was shaken with
tears; and horror
Drifted away ... O but every one
Was a bird; and the song was wordless; the singing will
never be done.