Perspective (verse)
Burgh, Hugh de
June 5, 1929 THE COMMONWEAL 129 Perspective Prostrate on the shoulder of this rock, itself shouldered on the mountains, the shoulders of the world, You can be carried past all the stars...
...You can see how it is with running waters, how crows and humming-birds come and go, How wheat is born in a thousand fields, and how a harvest dies...
...June 5, 1929 THE COMMONWEAL 129 Perspective Prostrate on the shoulder of this rock, itself shouldered on the mountains, the shoulders of the world, You can be carried past all the stars that tread on each other, but you cannot see them in the morning of the blue day...
...Sometimes a dead oak leaf will swiftly fall, imprinting a kiss on your forgetful mouth, or covering your unavailing eyes...
...Fuzzy little blurs on the horizon are forests, or cities, and beyond them are other forests and cities, cities and empires, ruins and oracles, the void and pleroma and the simplicity of God...
...Hugh de Burgh...
Vol. 10 • June 1929 • No. 5
