Strange acrobats to catch them dizzy headed.

These tightening strings upon our spirit's fiddles

Tuneful or out of tune where music hungers

From writhing bow, these intertwining riddles

Mazes and labyrinths and storms and languors.

These colours twinging on a prism's edges,

These speckled patterns of fanatic madness

From glittering eyeballs, these unresting dredges

For pearls within the depths of sadness and of gladness—

O tortuous thoughts, what are you seeking after