Song before Entering Paradise Forever
When all we are is cut and set
Two crystals on Death's bracelet,
When all we have lies curved together
On God's long wing, like feather and feather,
It's probable that we'll forget
Climate and cloud and earth and weather.
Before we are dissolved in light,
Or moulded, motionless, on flight,
Let us minutely move together,
Piteously promising one another-
Ecstatic midge and passionate mite-
To worship earth and relish weather.
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12 lines · 1 stanza