The Changeless that is back of all the change.

Lightly it comes as when a rose would be—

Takes feature yet remains a mystery.

On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades”

I hear a burst of music on the night!

Look at the white whirl of their bodies, see

The sweep of arms seraphical and free,

And over their heads a rush of circling light,

That draws them on with mystery and might:

But O the wild dance and the deathless song,