e three so wrought
Upon a moment, and so stretched it out
That they, time overthrown,
Were dead yet flesh and bone.

III

I knew that I had seen, had seen at last
That girl my unremembering nights hold fast
Or else my dreams that fly,
If I should rub an eye,

And yet in flying fling into my meat
A crazy juice that makes the pulses beat
As though I had been undone
By Homer's Paragon

Who never gave the burning town a thought;
To such a pitch of folly I am brought,
Being caught between the pull
Of the dark moon and the full,

The commonness of thought and images
That have the frenzy of our Western seas.
Thereon I made my moan,
And after kissed a stone,

And after that arranged it in a song
Seeing that I, ignorant for so long,
Had been rewarded thus
In Cormac's ruined house.

NOTE

"_Unpack the loaded pern_," p. 36.

When I was a child at Sligo I could see above my grandfather's trees a
little column of smoke from "the pern mill," and was told that "pern"
was another name for the spool, as I was accustomed to call it, on which
thread was wound. One could not see the chimney for the trees, and the
smoke looked as if it came from the mountain, and one day a foreign
sea-captain asked me if that was a burning mountain.

W. B. Y.

Printed in the United States of America.

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