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Here are your waters and your watering place.
Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.
Steeple Bush (1947)
All those who try to go it sole alone,
Too proud to be beholden for relief,
Are absolutely sure to come to grief.
Steeple Bush (1947)
Take care to sell your horse before he dies.
The art of life is passing losses on.
Steeple Bush (1947)
There is a house that is no more a house
Upon a farm that is no more a farm
And in a town that is no more a town.
Steeple Bush (1947)
First there's the children's house of make-believe,
Some shattered dishes underneath a pine,
The playthings in the playhouse of the children.
Weep for what little things could make them glad.
Steeple Bush (1947)
I stopped my song and almost heart,
For any eye is an evil eye
That looks in onto a mood apart.
Steeple Bush (1947)
I have kept hidden in the instep arch
Of an old cedar at the waterside
A broken drinking goblet like the Grail
Under a spell so the wrong ones can't find it,
So can't get saved, as Saint Mark says they mustn't.
(I stole the goblet from the children's playhouse.)
Here are your waters and your watering place.
Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.
Steeple Bush (1947)
Have I not walked without an upward look
Of caution under stars that very well
Might not have missed me when they shot and fell?
It was a risk I had to take — and took.
Steeple Bush (1947)
The height of the adventure is the height
Of country where two village cultures faded
Into each other. Both of them are lost.
And if you're lost enough to find yourself
By now, pull in your ladder road behind you
And put a sign up closed to all but me.
Steeple Bush (1947)
This was no playhouse but a house in earnest.
Your destination and your destiny's
A brook that was the water of the house,
Cold as a spring as yet so near its source,
Too lofty and original to rage.
Steeple Bush (1947)