Dream Song 6

77 Dream Songs (1964)

A Capital at Wells

During the father’s walking—how he lookdown by now in soft boards, Henry, passand what he feel or no, who know?—as during h’s broad father’s, all the breaks& ill-lucks of a thriving pioneerback to the flying boy in mountain air,

Vermont’s child to go out, and while Keats sweat’for hopeless inextricable lust, Henry’s fate,and Ethan Allen was a calling man,all through the blind one’s dream of the start,when Day was killing Porter and had to partlovers for ever, fancy if you can,

while the cardinals’ guile to keep Aeneas outwas failing, while in some hearts Chinese doubtinscrutably was growing, toward its end,and a starved lion by a water-holeclouded with gall, while Abelard  was whole,these grapes of stone were being proffered, friend.

77 Dream Songs (1964)