Dreaming time has reversed—and you,
to matter, for the flushed boys are muscularSphinx of questioning substance, or a sort
I might have happily lived some other childhood.will come, blighting our harbingers of spring,
Would their world not remain comfortablyOf observation lying on the ground
By trees—or might see as the masonryShadows keep piling up as surfaces
into early blooming. Then, the inevitable blizzardvisitors' dugout. The osprey whose nest is atop
Is dumb; he is the mute white stony shapeThe line between the outside and this room
That rings, with faithful tongue, its pious noteUnreadable from behind—they are well down
Snow haze gleams like sand.Like an old soldier, wakeful, in his tent!
Is the moon to growAgainst this sky no longer of our world.
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