I could show you such things as you never have seen But I'd have to go back on my oath An oath I never made, but which Stuck with me, the most sacred of things So sacrosanct that even to say the words of the oath itself Would be to break it. Rarely is holiness so raw Yet when that place is found When the moon descends And the water rises Something shifts: and the veil is slightly lifted But only slightly, for Personne ne peut enlever la voile d'Isis Even if we know how Especially if we know how Yet sometimes, gods willing, It thins itself slightly But only slightly, and We catch a glimpse of the way things really are: The way things could be.