Within the stomach of the world The country stretches its branches, uncurled Who is the horror of Napoleon Bonaparte? Who darkens and fools the heart? Often when man is shaken to the core Other worlds sneak peeks in his door And even in the junction of cattle Metaphysical and mystical truths dazzle Touched by the sea, a vision came The pearls of the earth in flames A jackdaw perches itself on pistons Radiating heat from all of its mission His mystic sense stayed tight beneath eyelids Yet lit the flame in all said and undid Like a voice in the wilderness Or even a prophet of old, who might deliver us.