The Pool And The Soul

 ("Comme dans les étangs.") 
 
 {X., May, 1839.} 


 As in some stagnant pool by forest-side, 
 In human souls two things are oft descried; 
 The sky,—which tints the surface of the pool 
 With all its rays, and all its shadows cool; 
 The basin next,—where gloomy, dark and deep, 
 Through slime and mud black reptiles vaguely creep. 
 
 R.F. HODGSON 


 

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