Poems

<h4><SPAN name="LOST" id="LOST"></SPAN>LOST</h4> <p>So you have gained the golden crowns, so you have piled together<br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">The laurels and the jewels, the pearls out of the blue,</span><br/> But I will beat the bounding drum and I will fly the feather<br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">For all the glory I have lost, the good I never knew.</span><br/> <br/> I saw the light of morning pale on princely human faces,<br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">In tales irrevocably gone, in final night enfurled,</span><br/> I saw the tail of flying fights, a glimpse of burning blisses,<br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">And laughed to think what I had lost&mdash;the wealth of all the world.</span><br/> <br/> Yea, ruined in a royal game I was before my cradle;<br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Was ever gambler hurling gold who lost such things as I?</span><br/> The purple moth that died an hour ere I was born of<br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">That great green sunset God shall make three days after I die.</span><br/> <br/> When all the lights are lost and done, when all the skies are broken,<br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Above the ruin of the stars my soul shall sit in state,</span><br/> With a brain made rich, with the irrevocable sunsets,<br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">And a closed heart happy in the fullness of a fate.</span><br/> <br/> So you have gained the golden crowns and grasped the golden weather,<br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">The kingdoms and the hemispheres that all men buy and sell,</span><br/> But I will lash the leaping drum and swing the flaring feather,<br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">For the light of seven heavens that are lost to me like hell.</span><br/> <br/><br/></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />