Nor shape of trees nor sense of near and far,

The undimensioned night and formless skies

Were there, and were the Master’s great allies.

33

“I am very old,” he said. “But if the time

We suffered in our dreams were counting age,

I have outlived the ocean and my prime

Is with me to this day. Years cannot gauge

The dream-life. In the turning of a page,

Dozing above my book, I have lived through