1. He held the sword in his hand,
As the earth donned her jewelry and furs.

2. I wondered at the hills' obedience to him
In aiming and rising high.

3. Like the sun he carried the new moon,
With some planets in the starry sky.

4. As though amid the ships and canoes
He walked with pride and virtue owed.

5. His eyelids like a deer's antlers
A snare with which to hunt prey spied.

6. Prose he scattered in rhymed prose folded,
Not like a love-sick heart's flood.

7. As though Solomon's deer you decreed
To ruin what David's hand once hewed.