BIB_ID
419429
Accession number
MA 4706.13
Display Date
Place not specified, undated
Credit line
Purchased, 1991.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 25.5 x 20.5 cm
Notes
The authorship of the poem is unknown and there is no evidence of publication.
The poem is undated but the collection includes correspondence dating from October 15, 1930 to March 25,1952.
The poem is undated but the collection includes correspondence dating from October 15, 1930 to March 25,1952.
Provenance
Purchased on the Gordon Ray Fund, 1991.
Summary
Being a poem of 6 4-line stanzas as follows: "We are like trees; our roots / Draw from the dark unknown / The substance of the fruits / Which will in time be shown - / The fruits that we must own. / The all-engendering sun / Begets with equal glee / Maggots on carrion, / Perseus on Danae : / So, good and evil, we. / Autumn alone with show / What seed was sown in spring : / Of morning's song we know / The words at evening - / If still we sing. / But he who turns again / To his dark motherland, / And in that lost domain / Finds Eurydice stand, / Then taking her cold hand, / Without a look behind, / leads her up towards the sun - He has no more to find, / His treasure-quest is done; / He and his fate are one. / That man is born again, / Orpheus - Nicodeme, / Not of the will of men, / But of the secret stream / Of spirit and a dream."
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