What made us dream that he could comb gray hair?

We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet.

The Mask "Put off that mask of burning gold With emerald eyes." "O no, my dear, you make so bold To find if hearts be wild and wise, And yet not cold." "I would but find what's there to find, Love or deceit." "It was the mask engaged your mind, And after set your heart to beat, Not what's behind." "But lest you are my enemy, I must enquire." "O no, my dear, let all that be, What matter, so there is but fire In you, in me?"

Ah, let us kiss each other's eyes,/And laugh our love away.

Education is not filling

I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'

The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.