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Glassy Sea

Merwin, W S

As you see each of the stars has a voice and at least one long syllable before

words as we know them and can recall them

later one by one with their company

around them after the sound of them has

gone from its moment even though we may

say it again and again it is gone

again far into our knowledge there are

words as we know for whatever does not

die with us but the sound of those words lasts

no longer than the others it is heard

only for part of the length of a breath

among those clear syllables never heard

from which the words were made in another

time and the syllables themselves are not

there forever some may go all the way

to the beginning but not beyond it