| Heart and
Mind SAID the Lion to the
Lioness--'When you are amber dust,--
No more a raging fire like the heat of the Sun
(No liking but all lust)--
Remember still the flowering of the amber blood
and bone,
The rippling of bright muscles like a sea,
Remember the rose-prickles of bright paws
Though the fire of that sun the heart and the
moon-cold bone are one.'
Said the
Skeleton lying upon the sands of Time--
'The great gold planet that is the mourning heat
of the Sun
Is greater than all gold, more powerful
Than the tawny body of a Lion that fire consumes
Like all that grows or leaps...so is the heart
More powerful
than all dust. Once I was Hercules
Or Samson, strong as the pillars of the seas:
But the flames of the heart consumed me, and the
mind
Is but a foolish wind.'
Said the Sun to
the Moon-'When you are but a lonely white crone,
And I, a dead King in my golden armour somewhere
in a dark wood,
Remember only this of our hopeless love
That never till Time is done
Will the fire of the heart and the fire of the
mind be one.
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