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A Prayer on Going into My House
| God grant a blessing on this tower and cottage | | And on my heirs, if all remain unspoiled, | | No table or
chair or stool not simple enough | | For shepherd lads in Galilee; and grant | | That I myself for portions of
the year | | May handle nothing and set eyes on nothing | | But what the great and passionate have used | | Throughout so many varying centuries | | We take it for the norm; yet should I dream | | Sinbad the sailor’s
brought a painted chest, | | Or image, from beyond the Loadstone Mountain, | | That dream is a norm; and
should some limb of the devil | | Destroy the view by cutting down an ash | | That shades the road, or setting
up a cottage | | Planned in a government office, shorten his life, | | Manacle his soul upon the Red Sea bottom. |
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By PanEris
using Melati.
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