I Asked

I asked the Fall, Where are Thy songs? She said that Gone with winds They all They live with woodland nightingales They live with larks and waterfalls I asked the Sun, Wherest thou run? He said , " by Hands of Callous Doom Slipped I with stars of far off sky And doth so silver shining Moon" More horrid than the moonless nights Is face of Callous heartless Doom She comes in garb of Mirth and Glee She dwells in damp and darkish Room I asked the Fall , Which song thou sing Which angels live in heart of thine She said , " I am in ceaseless pain With wounds of time on hearts of mine From height I look at lakes of blood These salty wounds entwine my rhyme " I ask the clouds, " In flocks and crowds? Wherest thou roam in far off land? O tell me what thou saw in ways? O tell me tales of wonderland! They said the ocean Maid there weeps In far off far off dream island! She brought the stars from far off skies Which fell and mixed in sandy land She gazed with tearful eyes at world She gazes at vast vast silver sand O may that something we can do O may that hold We Her soft hand" "O go" I said , "With tales of woe Thy heart is in the shroud of time Whose needles are in endless flow He rows on with the smile on lips His lingering gaze at worldly show