The Mounting Summer, Brilliant and Ominous

A yellow-headed, gold-hammered, sunflower-lanterned

Summer afternoon: after the sun soared and soared

All morning to the marble shining heights of marvellous blue,

Like lions insurgent, bursting out of a great zoo,

As if all vividness poured down, poured out, poured

Over, bursting and breaking in all the altitudes of blaze,

As when the whole ocean rises and rises, in irresistible motion,

shaking;

The roat of the heart in a shell or the roar of the sea beyond the

concessions of possession and the secessions of time's fearful

procession, precious even in its continuous perishing.