And there were the stars, and the sea, and the sun coming up out of the sea.

And I went mad with the wind’s song.

Then I chanted my ardor to the air—

But it came back clanging about my ears:

The stars were too near,

I was compressed between horizons;

I choked in the wind and the sun!

In my wrath I strode back to men

And smote the husks asunder.

From them came forth