There is a place, before the kings keep Where those looks of solemn dignity Go resignedly to weep Between the gray trees and under gray canopy
To the place where wildflowers wilt and muses mutter Little words, falling like white feathers in the muddy water
If one walks between the trees There is a basin, and liquid of silvery green Imbued with the mutterings of agony unseen
It is the words of those sorrows frail Spoken with a breath and then a look of fright And then a frantic run from faces clothed by night Dissecting looks unrelenting judgments upon the unredeemed
all who have felt the pain such as muses sing And cried at night or betwixt the thorny leaves have drunk of this basin green And felt the hot swell of sorrow rising from the deep crevices of our frail corporeal shells
And the voices of all those who filled it up Violently swell in undulating liquid wail
From those who walk betwixt the trees Is sounded the great collective scream.