I HAVE found a place of loneliness
Lonelier than
Lyonesse
Lovelier
than Paradise;
Full of sweet stillness
That no noise can transgress
Never a lamp
distress.
The full moon sank in state.
I saw her stand and
wait
For her
watchers to shut the gate.
Then I found myself in a wonderland
All of shadow and of
bland
Silence hard
to understand.
I waited therefore; then I knew
The presence of the flowers
that grew
Noiseless, their wonder noiseless blew.
And flashing kingfishers that flew
In sightless beauty, and the
few
Shadows the
passing wild-beast threw.
And Eve approaching over the ground
Unheard and subtle, never a
sound
To let me
know that I was found.
Invisible the hands of Eve
Upon me travelling to
reeve
Me from the
matrix, to relieve
Me from the rest! Ah terribly
Between the body of life and
me
Her hands slid
in and set me free.
Ah, with a fearful, strange detection
She found the source of my
subjection
To the
All, and severed the connection.
Delivered helpless and amazed
From the womb of the All, I
am waiting, dazed
For memory to be erased.
Then I shall know the Elysium
That lies outside the
monstrous womb
Of
time from out of which I come.