And If the Crystal Globe

Winfield Townley Scott

And if the crystal globe should break
To leave us to the world again,
The bubble risen beyond our touch
And cancelled in the air and lost,
The pennies of our dreams bespent,
Till leopards watch behind our eyes
The pigeons of our minds released
To peck the tigers of our hearts,
We need fear nothing now of this-
The business of the carrion
Invades no arteries of light:
We dream: and after that the dark.