Thursday 31 March 2016

A Drawn out Murmur




Then a deeper sound is heard, a drawn out murmur,
as the cold Southerly sighs in the woods sometimes, 
as the troubled sea hisses on an ebb tide, 
as the rapacious fire whistles in a sealed furnace.



Then I'd urge you to burn fragrant resin, right away,
and give them honey through reed pipes, freely calling them
and exhorting the weary insects to eat their familiar food.

( Virgil )