The usual stars, the still
And seemly planets, lantern-bright
Above our darkened hill.
And then a star that moved, I thought,
For something moved indeed
Up from behind the massed skyline
At ardent silent speed
And when it reached the zenith, cut
Across the curving path
Of a second light that swung up like
A scythe-point through its swathe.
'The sky at night is full of us',
Now one began to sing,
'Our slugs of lead lie cold and dead,
Our trace is on the wing.
Our casings and our blunted parts
Are gathered up below
As justice stands aghast and stares
Like the sun on arctic snow.
Our guilt was accidental. Blame,
Blame because you must.
Then blame young men for semen or
Blame the moon for moondust.'
As ricochets that warble close,
Then die away on wind,
That hard contralto sailed across
And stellar quiet reigned
Until the other fireball spoke:
'We are the iron will.
We hoop and cooper worlds beyond
The killer and the kill.
Mount Olivet's beatitudes,
The soul's cadenced desires
Cannot prevail against us who
Dwell in the marbled fires
Of every steady eye that ever
Narrowed, sighted, paused:
We fire and glaze the shape of things
Until the shape's imposed.'
Now wind was blowing through the yard.
Clouds blanked the stars. The still
And seemly planets disappeared
Above our darkened hill.
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