The Garden, Aldous Huxley

The Garden

There shall be dark trees round me:—I insist
On cypresses: I’m terribly romantic—
And glimpsed between shall move the whole Atlantic,
Now leaden dull, now subtle with grey mist,
Now many jewelled, when the waves are kissed
By revelling sunlight and the corybantic
South-Western wind: so, troubled, passion-frantic,
The poet’s mind boils gold and amethyst.

There shall be seen the infinite endeavour
Of a sad fountain, white against the sky
And poised as it strains up, but doomed to break
In weeping music; ever fair and ever
Young … and the bright-eyed wood-gods as they slake
Their thirst in it, are silent, reverently …

The end