The Golden Darkness/With Me
WITH ME.
When I was born a million stars
Flamed out of dead eternity,
And heaved the hills into the sky
As moonlight heaves the shaggy sea.
Flamed out of dead eternity,
And heaved the hills into the sky
As moonlight heaves the shaggy sea.
Out of dead silence wild birds sang,
As out of shade, emerged their grace;
When I was born a million flowers,
A million trees sprang into place.
As out of shade, emerged their grace;
When I was born a million flowers,
A million trees sprang into place.
Out of dead darkness rivers roared,
Out of dead darkness, wind and sea,
Out of dead darkness, dawn and spring,—
All time and space were born with me!
Out of dead darkness, wind and sea,
Out of dead darkness, dawn and spring,—
All time and space were born with me!
But when I die, some monstrous hand
Out of a night that is not night,
Will draw a silence down the wind,
A darkness down life's pane of light.
Out of a night that is not night,
Will draw a silence down the wind,
A darkness down life's pane of light.
And all will vanish, birds and trees,
And dawn and spring and shaggy sea;—
The weary hills will settle back,
And all the stars will die with me!
And dawn and spring and shaggy sea;—
The weary hills will settle back,
And all the stars will die with me!