Poems By Arjava

I SING of a different place

Where dreamlight falls .

Not through dissevering space

On outward walls,

But cleaves a comelier way

Where falsehood holds no sway

And friendship gains

A truth beyond the puppet hood of Time's chains.

Within the moonscape of my dream

The silvery hooves

Of a snow-white unicorn shall gleam,

And as it moves

No harshness clangs upon the air—

But earth-born thoughts remade,

From swathes of sound stripped bare,

Are echoed in moon-purity from cliffs of jade.

There was a very silent pool:

But at midnight's stroke

When moon-rays from the zenith rule,

That mirror woke,

Enframing dream within a dream,

Song within song,

Soul's love behind all mental theme

Or passions' throng.