XXXV

The Black Riders and Other Lines (1895)

A man saw a ball of gold in the sky;He climbed for it,And eventually he achieved it —It was clay.Now this is the strange part:When the man went to the earthAnd looked again,Lo, there was the ball of gold.Now this is the strange part:It was a ball of gold.Aye, by the heavens, it was a ball of gold.