A STAR COMES SINGING
That I may have my fill of food and love,
Living as I sing:
That those who know me and come after me,
The human blossoms of my human mating,
May carry further the torch, lift higher the song.
Living as I sing:
That those who know me and come after me,
The human blossoms of my human mating,
May carry further the torch, lift higher the song.
XIII.
The Passing
Now, in this desolate space between two distant stars,
The planet is passing,
With a noise like a thousand cities falling together.
The planet is passing,
With a noise like a thousand cities falling together.
Like spindrift caught in a foam-wake
The distant stars bend in behind it;
And pelting fragments of shattered worlds.
Sweep dizzily after.
The distant stars bend in behind it;
And pelting fragments of shattered worlds.
Sweep dizzily after.
Lessening, up the lofty highroad of the suns,
Dimming, stilling its piercing song,
It whirls into the starry distance.
Up its chill journey.
Dimming, stilling its piercing song,
It whirls into the starry distance.
Up its chill journey.
Pass on, up-spiraling earth!
What seeds you have, you will bring to fruitage;
What seeds you have, you will bring to fruitage;
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