I ran up from the sea bank where the long pink grasses comb away my silent sullen soul And in between my steps I saw the Earth as clear as day sunlight flashing off the waves
Two more steps along the shore and the truth has slipped away The clear and purest thought I found between the half-light and the day now lost in the memory pool with the banal and the obscure The stain of mere illusion, the frustration of the lure