HEAVEN
Saturday, 9. December 2006, 22:17:58
Fish
Dawdling away their wat'ry noon
Ponder deep wisdom,dark and clear,
Each secret fishy hope or fear.
Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond ;
But is there anything Beyond ?
This cannot be All, they swear,
For how unpleasant, if it were !
One may not doubt that, somehow,Good
Shall come of Water and Mud ;
And, sure, the reverent eye must see
A purpose in Liquidity.
We darkly know, by faith we cry,
The future is not Wholly Dry.
Mud unto mud ! -Death eddies near-
Not hear the appointed End, not here !
But somewhere, beyond Space and Time,
Is wetter water,slimier slime !
And there {they trust} there swim ONE
Who swam where rivers were begun,
Immense, of fishy form and mind,
Squamous,omnipotent, and kind :
Under that Almighty Fin,
The littlest may enter in.
Oh ! never fly conceals a hook,
Fish say in the Eternal Brook,
But more than mundane weeds are there,
Mud, celestially fair ;
Fat caterpillars drift around,
Paradisal grubs are found ;
Unfading moths, immortal flies,
And the worm that never dies.
In the Heaven of all their wish,
There shall be no more land, say fish.
Dawdling away their wat'ry noon
Ponder deep wisdom,dark and clear,
Each secret fishy hope or fear.
Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond ;
But is there anything Beyond ?
This cannot be All, they swear,
For how unpleasant, if it were !
One may not doubt that, somehow,Good
Shall come of Water and Mud ;
And, sure, the reverent eye must see
A purpose in Liquidity.
We darkly know, by faith we cry,
The future is not Wholly Dry.
Mud unto mud ! -Death eddies near-
Not hear the appointed End, not here !
But somewhere, beyond Space and Time,
Is wetter water,slimier slime !
And there {they trust} there swim ONE
Who swam where rivers were begun,
Immense, of fishy form and mind,
Squamous,omnipotent, and kind :
Under that Almighty Fin,
The littlest may enter in.
Oh ! never fly conceals a hook,
Fish say in the Eternal Brook,
But more than mundane weeds are there,
Mud, celestially fair ;
Fat caterpillars drift around,
Paradisal grubs are found ;
Unfading moths, immortal flies,
And the worm that never dies.
In the Heaven of all their wish,
There shall be no more land, say fish.
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