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Two
lovers
to a midnight meadow came
High in the hills, to lie there hand and hand
Like effigies and look up at the
stars
,
The never-setting ones set in the North
To
circle
the Pole in idiot
majesty
,
And what was given them to
wonder
.
Being amateurs, they knew some of the
names
By rote, and could attach the
names
to stars
And draw the lines
invisible
between
That
humbled
all the
heavenly
things
to farm
And forest things and even kitchen things,
A bear, a wagon, a long handled ladle;
Could
wonder
at the
shadow
of the world
That brought those lights to
light
, could wonder too
At the
ancestral
eyes and the
dark
mind
Behind them that had reached the length of light
To name the
stars
and draw the
animals
And other stuff that dangled in the height,
Or was it the
deep
? Did they look in
Or out, the lovers? till they grew bored
As even
lovers
will, and got up to go,
But drunken now, with staggering and dizziness,
Because the
spell
of
earth
had moved them so,
Hallucinating that the
heavens
moved
.
Howard Nemerov