To gaze at a river made of time and water And remember Time is another river To know we stray like a river And our faces vanish like water To feel that waking is another dream That dreams of not dreaming and that the d**h We fear in our bones is the d**h That every night we call a dream To see in every day and year a symbol Of all the days of man and his years And convert the outrage of the years Into a music, a sound, and a symbol To see in d**h a dream, in the sunset A golden sadness, such is poetry
Humble and immortal, poetry Returning, like dawn and the sunset Sometimes at evening there's a face That sees us from the deeps of a mirror Art must be that sort of mirror Disclosing to each of us his face They say Ulysses, wearied of wonders Wept with love on seeing Ithaca Humble and green. Art is that Ithaca A green eternity, not wonders Art is endless like a river flowing Pa**ing, yet remaining, a mirror to the same Inconstant Heraclitus, who is the same And yet another, like the river flowing