Carrying vast burdens over the crags of chaos—

Waiting,

Like trees that hear the far-off moan of winds,

Like listening trees that hug their branches round them,

Their leaves whispering lividly the rumour of storms,

Waiting like a vast arch of quietness

Through which a screaming messenger shall dart—

Like a dense hood of silence

Pierced by a sword of music—

Waiting, like the deathly stillness of a pool